From The Boston Globe, November 15, 2009, p. K3, Ideas Section:
Just when we thought we were entering a post-racial society, some recently published research – the New York City Hiring Discrimination Study – suggests otherwise. 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. Granted, this study was undertaken in 2004, before all the talk of a post-racial society; however, New York City is one of the most diverse and progressive places on earth, so if discrimination was still rampant there…
Pager, D. et al., “Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment,??? American Sociological Review (October 2009).
