Blindspot Chapter Summaries

Despite the assumption that the United States has attained full democracy, there are still many incidences of biases. The main motive for Banaji Mahzarin R. to write the book was to bring to light the biases that people keep in their minds or brains as well as showing how those bits of knowledge about individuals and about their skin color, education, age, and religion can manipulate behavior.
In the book, Karen Zach is presented to be training in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. She had always championed for human equality from 2008 when she joined the Anti-racism Commision. While working as a member for the Chicago Regional Organizing for Anti-racism, she built a network of friends that were antiracist in the Chicago area. However, she later moved to train in instructional design in the telecom industry. She worked as a consultant in the outplacement section (Banaji & Greenwald, 2013). She always loved playing with her young siblings and her four children. The practiced yoga, walking and reading together.
The author has been able to enunciate that it is the unconscious cognition and not the conscious thought that motivates the judgement and behaviors of people (Banaji & Greenwald, 2013). The author gave an illustration of the ten minute test exercises to find out the taker’s perceptions and attitudes, a person’s negative or positive associations with a group of individuals. His findings was that from the more than ten million IAT’s depicted a negative relation between what “good people” trust and believe in them and the actuality of their actions and attitudes (Banaji & Greenwald, 2013). People portray different forms of attitudes, however, for white people most of them are persuasive. They prefer the young over the aging and also straight people over the gay