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Jul 23, 2021 · The book argues that Americans have been fed a “zero-sum story” that says progress for people of color will take away what white Americans already have. ... This history helped answer a ...
Feb 17, 2021 · Her new book makes the case that racial discrimination in the United States has been harmful to white Americans as well as people of color. The book is called "The Sum Of Us." You write about the ...
We show that this emerging belief reflects Whites’ view of racism as a zero-sum game, such that decreases in perceived bias against Blacks over the past six decades are associated with increases in perceived bias against Whites—a relationship not observed in Blacks’ perceptions. Moreover, these changes in Whites’ conceptions of racism ...
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Jul 22, 2022 · In a 2011 article in this journal entitled “Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing” (Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 215–218), Norton and Sommers assessed Black and White Americans’ perceptions of anti-Black and anti-White bias across the previous 6 decades—from the 1950s to the 2000s. They presented two key findings: White (but not Black) respondents ...
Dec 9, 2019 · This tendency has been attributed to the idea that white people perceive they are increasingly the targets of (reverse) discrimination, while black people are targeted less 4, 5, 6. A new study by ...
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Dec 18, 2019 · In the maintained status quo condition, we examined zero-sum thinking about trends that uphold and maintain the status quo: “The more white people are able to get into positions of power, the more black people lose their status in society,” “The easier it is for white students to gain admission to college, the more it becomes difficult for black students to get admitted,” “The more ...
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May 20, 2021 · Truth: Racism is everywhere. Many people associate racism in the US with Southern states, but when you look at present-day data on education and incarceration, the South is no longer the epicenter of racial bias and disparity. Yes, as recently as the 1990s, racially negative attitudes were found primarily in the Southern states but by 2016 ...
