Investigating Implicit Racial Bias in the Rhetoric of Congressional Representatives

• In Event: Congress, Legislation, and Lobbying Through the Lens of REP

Brief Overview

We use a word embeddings text analysis of the Congressional Record to investigate the prevalence of implicit racial bias among white members of Congress between 1965 and 2016.

Authors

• Douglas R. Rice, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Jesse Hessler Rhodes, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Tatishe Mavovosi Nteta, University of Massachusetts-Amherst