The Association Between Active Political Involvement and Awareness of Racial Inequalities Across Education Level in the U.S

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Dove Bonjean-Alpart
Dove Bonjean-Alpart

Hi everyone! I’m a first-year student at Wesleyan from Brooklyn, NY. I’m still undecided about my major but I’m considering pursuing either Psychology or Neuroscience as well as minors in IDEAS and French. Outside of class, I wrestle and play chess. I look forward to sharing my presentation with everyone.

Abstract: This study analyzes the relationship between political involvement and consequential awareness of racial inequality in the United states using the Outlook on Life survey from 2012. The survey included 2,294 respondents randomly sampled from around the U.S. This study operationalizes “political involvement” as a binary categorical response with “1” indicating that the respondent answered “no” both to whether they attended a voter registration drive in the past two years and to whether they attended a protest demonstration in the past two years. The category
“2” indicates that the respondent had participated in at least one of the two forms of political involvement. My response variable is a scale from 1-5 based on respondents accordance (strongly disagree – strongly agree) with several provocative statements such as “discrimination against blacks is no longer a problem in the U.S”. I studied this relationship across respondents level of education based on their highest level of schooling (middle school-graduate school). The results indicate that participants who had been politically involved received a higher score on the scale of awareness of racial inequality. Education level also helped to explain this relationship by indicating that higher levels of education were also associated with higher scores on the scale.

Keywords: Racial Inequality, Political Involvement, Education, Protest

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