A New Study Highlights Just How Tightly Perceptions Of Class And Race Are Linked

This shouldn’t be news at this point!

Back in 2021, following up on some stuff from my book, I wrote about the possibility that studies showing employers prefer “white” names to “black” ones might be explainable by forces other than antiblack racism. This would be a pretty big deal, because this finding, which is robust and well-replicated, is often taken as evidence of the pervasiveness of…