Keon West for The Science of Racism
Tuesday 18th February 2025
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath, York Street, Bath, Somerset BA1 1NG
6.30pm
7pm
'Illuminating, surprising, unnerving, moving . . . and, sadly, utterly necessary' - Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland
In the ground-breaking publication that is The Science of Racism, Professor Keon West cuts through divisive anecdotes and rhetoric with decades' worth of clear, factual, rigorous science - the data that reveals truths about racism that are shocking and tragic, but also (somehow) funny and entertaining.
He explains how we know, for example, that Black people are up to 50 per cent less likely to be called in to interview than identically qualified white people. He reveals the effects of racism on our friendships, relationships, healthcare and justice system.
He exposes the continued prevalence of racism, and the inadequacy of our many attempts to address it.
Whatever you've read before, this book will ensure that you never see racism in the same way again.
Professor Keon West is a social psychologist at the University of London. He earned his doctorate from Oxford University in 2010 as a Rhodes Scholar and has since published more than seventy quantitative papers on prejudice and discrimination in many of the best peer-reviewed social-psychology journals, including Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Perspectives on Psychological Science.