“we all have ideas about race. Even the most open-minded among us. Those ideas have the power to bias our perception, our attention, our memory, and our actions—all despite our conscious awareness or deliberate intentions. Our ideas about race are shaped by the stereotypes to which we are exposed on a daily basis.”4 Those stereotypes are consistent and we all receive them. The overwhelming whiteness of those at the top is due to so much more than the “cream rising” idea that individualism suggests.
