Testing Times

Summary

A large study of how the public thinks about race, from Sanjiv Lingayah and Nina Kelly at Reframing Race. With 20,000 participants, it finds a mixed picture: four in ten think some races are naturally harder working than others, yet nine in ten support action to tackle racism. It also tests which language and information move people towards anti-racist thinking.

Rationale

Backing action on racism while holding ideas of natural difference is the gap we describe between conscious opinion and what lies beneath. Reframing Race came to our 2024 workshop.