STUDY: Race & Status
By News One December 9, 2008 12:17 pm
From Kevin Drum at Mother Jones:
Blacks are often stereotyped as having lower status than whites. That won’t surprise anyone. But does it work in the other direction too?
Apparently so. The LA Times reports today on a study suggesting that people are more likely to be identified as black if their status changes for the worse.
Click here for the full report.
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