How Income Segregation Leads Americans to Underestimate Racial Inequality, Reducing Support for Addressing it

• In Event: How Perceptions of Social Class and Inequality Influence Political Behavior

Brief Overview

Due to income segregation, racial income inequality is typically much lower within communities than it is nationwide. This contributes to White Americans' underestimates of national racial inequality and their low support for policies to reduce it.

Author

• Matthew David Brundage, University of California-Berkeley