It found 51 percent of Americans show explicit anti-Black views and 56 percent show implicit anti-Black views. Anti-Latino sentiment has increased as well. Conducted by researchers at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan, it found that racial prejudice has increased since 2008.
Professor Jelani Cobb (a SBW fav), among other experts on race, was not surprised. "We have this false idea that there is uniformity in progress and that things change in one big step. That is not the way history has worked. When we've seen progress, we've also seen backlash," he said. Read more about the study here.
