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"A must read for students of bias, racism, discrimination, and privilege. Lu-in Wang employs readable prose and compelling examples to elucidate these complex issues. Her cutting-edge exposition, especially in the context of health care, offers the reader a deeper understanding of the unseen forces that govern daily life."--Stephanie M. Wildman, professor of law and director, Santa Clara University School of Law Center for Social Justice

"Does a powerful job of explaining why and how discrimination still plays such a strong role in our society.Like all of the best legal scholarship, this insightful book uses an unexpected, fresh conception to explore an age-old, stubborn problem. The result is a new understanding of both our legal structure and the society in which we live.A strong, helpful contribution to the debate on discrimination, its causes, and the damage it does."--David A. Harris, E.N. Balk Professor of Law and Values, University of Toledo College of Law

Much as we "select" computer settings by default--reflexively, without thinking, and sometimes without realizing there are other options--we often discriminate by default as well. And just as default computer settings tend to become locked in or entrenched as the standard, discrimination by default creates a situation in which disparate outcomes are expected, accepted, and taken for granted. The killing of Amadou Diallo, racial disparities in medical care, the dominance of Whites and men in certain professions, and even the uneven media attention paid to crimes depending on their victims' race and class, all might be cases of discrimination by, or as, default.

Wang contends that, today, most discrimination occurs by default and not design, making legal prohibitions that focus on those who discriminate out of ill will inadequate to redress the largest share of modern discrimination. She draws on social psychology to detail three ways in which unconscious assumptions can lead to discrimination, showing how they play out in a range of everyday settings. Wang then demonstrates how these dynamics interact in medical care to produce an invisible, self-fulfilling, and self-perpetuating prophecy of racial disparity. She goes on to suggest ways in which institutions and individuals might recognize, interrupt, and override the discriminatory default.

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An Analysis of a New Reality
A law professor's critical analysis of our society's discrimination by default

Lu-in Wang contends that the largest share of modern discrimination (in medical care, in certain professions, in media attention to crimes, etc.) is by default and not by design (or ill will).As one example among many (this one having to do with sexism), the author notes that until symphony orchestras began holding `blind' auditions with musicians performing behind a screen or curtain, male musicians tended to be hired exclusively; now, of course, the gender balance has evened out.Psychologically, it was an unconscious expectation on the part of those judging that the male musicians sounded better than the female.Professor Wang gives many illustrations of this phenomenon by which expectations influence the outcome and often become `reality'-the self-fulfilling prophecy.

In this fine book published by New York University Press, the author suggests ways by which society can override the default processes that promote discrimination, particularly, and most critically, in the legal system and in medical care. ... Read more