Implicit racial bias transmits through media and parenting without conscious awareness

Evidence

Within the context of the CJS, in the words of scholar Khalil Gibran Muhammad, race is written into crime and crime is written into race (2010). Implicit racial bias is transmitted in subtle ways, including from parents to their preschool-aged children (Castelli, Zogmaister, & Tomelleri, 2009) and by watching popular television shows, many of which contain negative nonverbal behavior directed at Black characters, which has been shown to increase viewers’ bias even though viewers could not consciously detect it (Weisbuch, Pauker, & Ambady, 2009). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 402

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s notes on unconscious influence — television’s unnoticed negative nonverbal cues echo how noise/ambient signals shape without conscious detection. — connects to: Conflicting familial racial messages create cultural dissonance in Multiracial adolescents. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 114
• SEED: Angle: unwatchable-in-real-time transmissions of bias — what other attitudes propagate below conscious detection thresholds across media?