The Boston Globe also picked up on Devah Pager and colleagues’ findings about the persistence of racial discrimination in hiring:
The study was run by sociologists at Princeton who recruited and trained white, black, and Latino “well-spoken, clean-cut young men” to apply for real entry-level jobs throughout New York City with fictitious, but essentially identical, resumes. The results were stark: “Blacks were only half as likely to receive a callback or job offer relative to equally qualified whites; moreover, black and Latino applicants with clean backgrounds fared no better than a white applicant just released from prison.” Even worse, the minority candidates were often channeled to positions inferior to those advertised, while the white candidates were often channeled to superior positions.
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RICK — November 26, 2010
WHAT EXACTLY IS IT THAT THEY FEAR IN PEOPLE OF MINORITY? EQUALITY