In the movie "The Green Book" Tony (Viggo Mortensen's character) is given a book that marked places that would service Black people or were safe to travel to. One common threat this book marked were sundown towns, towns in which Black people were arrested, threatened, or attacked after sundown. - ThreadSky

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maxprimbs.bsky.social • 4 days ago

In the movie "The Green Book" Tony (Viggo Mortensen's character) is given a book that marked places that would service Black people or were safe to travel to. One common threat this book marked were sundown towns, towns in which Black people were arrested, threatened, or attacked after sundown.

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maxprimbs.bsky.social•4 days ago

Though civil rights legislation largely put an end to their official aspects, the cultural legacy of sundown towns may have persisted within geographical regions.

In a new pre-print @jimmycalanchini.bsky.social and I examined the historical legacies of these sundown towns.

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/bfc2a_v1

maxprimbs.bsky.social•4 days ago

Using geolocated responses of 1.3 million Project Implicit vistors we investigated whether US counties that had sundown status or contained sundown towns showed higher levels of racial bias compared to counties with a historical sundown legacy.

maxprimbs.bsky.social•4 days ago

Across a multiverse of analyses and robustness checks we find that a historical legacy of sundown towns robustly predicts higher levels of implicit and explicit present-day racial bias within US counties.

maxprimbs.bsky.social•4 days ago

Our research contributes to a growing literature linking (historical) environments and biases and demonstrates that the effects of historical inequalities do not end when the inequality ends.

#SocialPsy #PsychSciSky

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