Professor DeSante's research on racial attitudes was featured in the New York Times OpEd by Thomas B. Edsell "We Aren’t Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is".
In their research "How Racial Empathy Moderates White Identity and Racial Resentment” and “Fear, Institutionalized Racism, and Empathy: The Underlying Dimensions of Whites’ Racial Attitudes,” the authors have come up with what they call a “four-Item FIRE Scale” with FIRE an acronym for Fear, Institutionalized Racism and Empathy.
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