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The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Strategic Messaging to Promote Policies that Advance Racial Equity: What Do We Know, and What Do We Need to Learn? (2023) · doi

  Although many of these studies find evidence that reference to race or use of racial cues tend to undermine support for racial equity-related policies, the accumulated body of evidence has generally not explored the effects of richer, more nuanced stories of lived experience and/or detailed historical and contemporary accounts of the ways racism is embedded in public policy design and implementation.

  Keywords: evidence racial find reference race cues tend undermine support equity related policies accumulated body generally
• Achieving Racial Equity From the Bottom-Up? The Student Equity Policy in the California Community Colleges (2018) · doi

  Findings show that attention to race and racial equity diminished over time in state policy documents, and varied widely in colleges’ response to the policy, suggesting that its potential to tackle racial inequities is so far unexploited.

  Keywords: racial policy show attention race equity diminished time state documents varied widely colleges response suggesting
• Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle? Experimental Evidence That Racial Resentment and Political Ideology Condition Responses to Racially Encoded Messages (2019) · doi

  Do appeals that subtly invoke negative racial stereotypes shift whites’ political attitudes by harnessing their racial prejudice? Though widely cited in academic and popular discourse, prior work finds conflicting evidence for this “dog-whistle hypothesis.

  Keywords: racial appeals subtly invoke negative stereotypes shift whites political attitudes harnessing prejudice though widely cited