White Privilege: Nonconscious Racism, Freud, and Neuroscience of Implicit Bias

Millsaps College – Christian Center, Jackson, MS

To what extent is white cultural domination nonconscious, and in what sense? How do neuroscience ideas of nonconscious racism, and ideas of Freud fit in? It seems that many white people who want to avoid racist behavior are nevertheless likely to harbor suppressed anti-black sentiment. The talk explores whether understanding the formation of unintentional racism might help reverse it.