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How images change our race bias

  • Written by S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College

Images are not static. They grab our attention, incite desire, alter our relations to others, and tweak our beliefs, as they usher us into new worlds.

When “Black Panther” was released, Baye McNeil, a former Brooklynite now living in Japan, was thrilled. As he told The Japan Times, he joined “a group of palpably positive brothers...

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