"Introduction: Implicit Bias in the Context of Structural Racism"

King sought to enlist the help of “members of the academic community, who are constantly writing about and dealing with the problems that we face and who have the tremendous responsi- bility of molding the minds of young men and women all over the country.”1 He called for deeper understanding of the nation’s legacy of racism and said “the un- derstanding needs to be carefully documented and conseq. [...] The genesis of this volume was a workshop we led on the science of implicit bias convened by the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law of the Nation- al Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in March 2021. [...] 10 Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Goodwin Liu & Camara Phyllis Jones How else to explain the remarkable finding that the extent of slaveholding by county at the time of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency correlates with county-level measures of pro-white implicit bias today, even after controlling for self-reported attitudes?11 A natural inference is that this relationsh. [...] 12 Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Goodwin Liu & Camara Phyllis Jones about the authors Goodwin Liu, a Fellow of the American Academy since 2019 and Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Academy since 2022, is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. [...] She is the editor of Black Women and Resilience: Power, Perseverance, and Public Health (with Kisha Braithwaite Holden, 2024) and many articles on nam- ing, measuring, and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the United States and the world.