NOWADAYS, we like to think we have got past the racist claptrap of previous centuries, when even scientists – white ones, of course – declared white people to be the pinnacle of human progress and other races to be inferior. There is no question that most societies have made enormous progress in eliminating such overt racial prejudice. But an unsettling study published this week by researchers in the US suggests that there is still a long way to go.
Even today, the study finds, Americans of various races still unconsciously dehumanise their black fellow citizens by subtly associating them with apes. In…
