The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults

A large body of social science research is devoted to understanding the causes and correlates of discrimination. Comparatively less effort has been aimed at providing a general prevalence estimate of discrimination using a nationally representative sample. The current study is intended to offer such...

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Autores principales: Boutwell, Brian B., Nedelec, Joseph L., Winegard, Bo, Shackelford, Todd, Beaver, Kevin M., Vaughn, Michael, Barnes, J. C., Wright, John P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28837680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183356
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Sumario:A large body of social science research is devoted to understanding the causes and correlates of discrimination. Comparatively less effort has been aimed at providing a general prevalence estimate of discrimination using a nationally representative sample. The current study is intended to offer such an estimate using a large sample of American respondents (N = 14,793) while also exploring perceptions regarding why respondents felt they were discriminated against. The results provide a broad estimate of self-reported discrimination experiences—an event that was only reported by about one-quarter of all sample members—across racial and ethnic categories.

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