@ayomagwood.bsky.social
Founder of Uprooting Inequity. Interested in structural racism, health equity, income inequality, neighborhood/place-based analysis & initiatives, and social psychology. (Also dyslexia, ADHD, bipolar disorder)
Thanks anyway!
31.01.2025 23:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do you know if anyone downloaded the CDC's "PLACES" database and accompanying interactive GIS map? I need it for my (consulting) work!
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U.S. income inequality has reached historical "Gilded Age" levels.
Since the 1980s we have seen a steady return to concentrated economic & political power, minimal business regulations, weak labor unions, stark disparities between worker wages vs. CEO/shareholder profits, and extreme inequality.
Research shows discrimination is driven more by ingroup favoritism than outgroup bias. "Ultimately, many forms of discrimination and bias may develop not because outgroups are hated, but because positive emotions such as admiration, sympathy, and trust are reserved for the ingroup" (Brewer 1999)
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Over the past 25 years, field studies with matched résumés or matched testers consistently show that White applicants to job openings receive about 36% more callbacks than equally qualified Black applicants and 24% more than Latino applicants (Quillian, Pager, Hexel, & Midtbøen, 2017). Researchers measure this discrimination in two ways: they either send identical fictitious résumés—one with a “White-sounding” name and another with a “Black-sounding” name—to employers, or they use trained testers who pose as candidates with identical qualifications, one Black and one White. The figure below shows the ratio of callbacks for White versus Black applicants with the same qualifications. Each blue dot represents a single study. If no racial discrimination existed, all the blue dots would align with the dotted red line, indicating equal callback rates. However, the dots are consistently above the line, highlighting the extent of racial bias in hiring. The greater the distance from the line, the greater the level of discrimination uncovered in that study.
It’s mindboggling how many people believe that workplaces without "affirmative action" are meritocracies.
Over the past 25 years field studies with matched résumés or testers show that White applicants still receive 36% more callbacks than equally qualified Blacks and 24% more than Latinos. 1/1
A Black woman named Aliyah was struggling to find work. So, she catfished herself and made a fake profile on LinkedIn named "Emily." Emily had the same qualifications as Aliyah but received 57.9% of interview invites while Aliyah received 8.9%
This is what we mean when we say racism is systemic.
The same people who’ve spent the last several years decrying “unqualified DEI hires” are now shoehorning through Cabinet nominations who can’t even pass a basic background test.
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