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How do racial attitudes shape policy preferences in the era of Black Lives Matter and increasingly liberal views on racial issues? A large body of research finds that highlighting the benefits of progressive policies for racial minorities undermines support for those policies.

Using a newly available data set, which allows one to construct a novel measure of a student’s social status, we demonstrate that there are potentially important racial differences in the relationship between social status and academic achievement. The effect is intensified among students with a...