Benign Bigotry

Kristin J. Anderson is a psychology professor and a founding member of the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown. With eight years of service on the Independent Police Oversight Board, reviewing investigations of possible misconduct by Houston Police Department employees, she brings extensive expertise in social justice and accountability. Anderson is the author of Modern Misogyny: Anti-feminism in a Post-Feminist Era (2014) and Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged: Entitlement's Response to Social Progress (2021).

• Introduction: changing prejudice: a migration underground; 1. 'It's just a few bad apples': the denial of systemic inequality; 2. 'Those people all look alike': the myth of the other; 3. 'They must be guilty of something': myths of criminality; 4. 'Feminists are manhaters': backlash mythmaking; 5. 'LGBTQ people flaunt their sexuality': the myth of hypersexuality; 6. 'I'm not a racist, i'm colorblind': the myth of neutrality; 7. 'Affirmative action is reverse racism': the myth of merit; Conclusion: now what?

‘There is something terrifying about a villain that is unknown; masked and lurking in the shadows. In this important book, Anderson rips off the mask and pulls so-called benign bigotry into the light so that we might examine it. In doing so, she tears down myths to reveal the perniciousness of prejudice.’ Fiona Barlow, Professor of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia