Many critics disparage the SAT for its material, bias and racism in the test content.
But if the cognitive gap between black and white 5-year-olds has to do with the human and social capital children do or do not acquire at home and in the community -- and not, or at least not principally, with racism or unfair tests or different "cognitive styles" -- then we can't do without the explicit language of values and behavior.
The true test of racism, as Gaertner demonstrated years ago, isn't the talk.
In the final analysis, institutional racism is the litmus test of a society's democracy.
Noah summarized the doctor's findings — "No heart problems, no dementia, no dentures" — before inquiring, "But did you test for racism?" Which was an instance of Noah coasting on the goodwill secured by the correctness of his politics; the constituency of "The Daily Show" knows Trump to be a racist, so it allows lines like this to pass for wit.
When the City Council, which is now debating a new lead abatement law to replace the one struck down earlier this year by New York's highest court, held its first public hearing on the bill several weeks ago, some demonstrators in favor of the legislation suggested that the debate would be a litmus test for racism, since most poisoning victims are minority members.
Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University conducted experiments to test whether racism influenced welfare views.
I decided to try the Fetterley strategy, modified slightly, to test for racism in the Sean Bell case.
President Donald Trump may be in overall good health, but on Tuesday's broadcast of "The Daily Show," host Trevor Noah posed one question to the White House's official physician, Ronny Jackson: "No heart problems, no dementia, no dentures… but did you test for racism?" The news that Trump was declared completely sane made Noah "even more worried".
