Since 2020, DEI–diversity, equity, and inclusion–has gained momentum across workplaces, academic halls, and social media platforms. Some of the movement’s leaders–including Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility–have focused on the idea that racism is everywhere, and fundamentally embedded into White culture in particular.
A new study questions whether, when incorporated into DEI trainings, this type of “anti-racist” mindset makes things better or worse. Researchers at Rutger’s Social Perception Lab, along with the Network Contagion Research Institute, a nonprofit that studies the “spread of hostile ideological content,” set up a study to see what, if any impact, writings by Kendi and DiAngelo had on people’s perception of racism.
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