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Shocking Racial Attitudes: Black G.I.s in Europe

Author(s) -

David Schindler,

Mark Westcott

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

the review of economic studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 15.641

H-Index - 141

eISSN - 1467-937X

pISSN - 0034-6527

DOI - 10.1093/restud/rdaa039

Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , population , racism , social psychology , racial equality , trait , psychology , political science , demographic economics , sociology , gender studies , demography , economics , computer science , programming language

Can attitudes towards minorities, an important cultural trait, be changed? We show that the presence of African American soldiers in the UK during World War II reduced anti-minority prejudice, a result of the positive interactions which took place between soldiers and the local population. The change has been persistent: in locations in which more African American soldiers were posted there are fewer members of the UK’s leading far-right party, less implicit bias against blacks and fewer individuals professing racial prejudice, all measured around 2010. We show that persistence has been higher in rural areas and areas with less subsequent in-migration.

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