Is implicit racism is a problem in our society?
You are to write an essay explaining whether implicit racism is a problem in our society that needs to be addressed. The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate your understanding of a significant issue in epistemology and to support your position on this issue.
Your essay must be 4 pages, double-spaced, in 12-point font.
Regarding your content development, you will be graded based on the quality of your writing. I expect you to start with an introduction that motivates the project and plainly states your thesis and finish with a conclusion that both summarizes your evaluation of the position clearly and explores the implications or limitations of your assessment. In addition, your essay must have a clear and logical organizational plan as well, with ideas, sentences, and paragraphs building naturally in support of your thesis. To accomplish this, you must make sure your organizational plan would be obvious to the average reader, and you must use transitional words, phrases, and sentences to show how your sentences and paragraphs relate to each other and to your thesis.
To demonstrate your mastery of the relevant conventions of philosophical writing, you will need to provide a clear and complete explanation of implicit racism. To do so, you will need to define implicit bias in general and implicit racism in particular. Moreover, you will need to explain Kahneman’s distinction between System 1 and System 2 thinking and how it relates to implicit racism. Finally, you will also need to address why some regard implicit racism as a significant problem in our society as well as how it might be addressed as a flaw in our System 1 thinking.
To demonstrate your understanding of the context and purpose of this assignment, you should provide a clear example of the implicit racism that illustrates to the reader the potential relevance of this issue in our lives. Your example needs to be realistic, and you need to come up with it on your own. You need to explain how this example illustrates implicit racism as well as how it illustrates System 1 thinking, in detail, and with clarity.
Concerning the appropriate use of sources and evidence, you will need to discuss the relevant evidence Saul presents concerning implicit racism, and you will need to discuss at least two additional sources addressing whether implicit racism is a significant problem in our society that you discovered in your independent research. One of these sources should provide an argument or evidence that it is a significant problem that needs to be addressed, and the other should provide an argument or evidence against this conclusion. You will need to present the relevant considerations from your research on both sides of this issue and explain what conclusion we should draw and why. You will need to cite these sources using MLA
Finally, to demonstrate your control of syntax and mechanics, I expect you to skillfully communicate your meaning to the reader with clarity and virtually no grammatical mistakes. Overall, your essay must be clear, with well-developed paragraphs, complete and grammatical sentences, and words chosen for their precise meanings.