“Study: Stereotypes Drive Perceptions Of Race”
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1 min readAug 9, 2014
“What our research challenges is the idea that the race of an individual is fixed…If someone went from being employed to being unemployed, or being out of prison to being in prison, or being off welfare to being on welfare, the interviewer was more likely to see the person as black — after they experienced that sort of downward mobility — than before.”
Scroll down for a really amazing story from a woman whose race changed in her 20s (an example of how this race-arbitrariness plays out in the US)
(credit to JR)
