Racial Reckoning Through Empathy? Mapping Emotions and Beliefs about Racial Inequality in the Aftermath of the Covid-19 Crisis and 2020 Protests

Awarded Scholars:
Erica Czaja, University of Toledo
Project Date:
Mar 2023
Award Amount:
$30,000

Political scientists have long documented trends in public opinion, but our understanding of how and why public opinion changes on issues is limited. Political scientist and social policy scholar Erica Czaja will examine the role of empathy during the COVID-19 crisis and the social protests of 2020 in shifting Americans’ understandings of systemic racism. She will conduct an original survey experiment and will analyze survey data from the KFF/The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health and the Axios/Ipsos Hard Truth Civil Rights & Social Justice poll for her project.

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