This article reviews studies of hiring discrimination against racial and ethnic minority groups
in cross-national perspective. We focus on field experimental studies of hiring discrimination …

Relative deprivation (RD) is the judgment that one is worse off compared to some standard
accompanied by feelings of anger and resentment. Social scientists use RD to predict a …

Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the
political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be …

This study investigates change over time in the level of hiring discrimination in US labor
markets. We perform a meta-analysis of every available field experiment of hiring …

An extensive literature documents racial discrimination in housing, focusing on its
prevalence and effect on non-White populations. This article studies how such …

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today
than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about …

Theories of race relations have been shaped by the concept of a racial hierarchy along
which Whites are the most advantaged and African Americans the most disadvantaged …

This book examines how ordinary people understand stigma and discrimination, and how
they respond to such experiences. We conducted more than 400 in-depth interviews with …

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-
racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation …

Political behavior is the result of innumerable unnoticed forces and conscious deliberation is
often a rationalization of automatically triggered feelings and thoughts. Citizens are very …