(NewsNation) — The majority of Americans say they are familiar with Black influences on American culture, but less than half of Black adults say Black Americans are given enough credit for their contributions.
New data from the Gallup Center on Black Voices found Americans across all racial groups say they are familiar with Black influences on American culture. The study also found most Americans think Black Americans are given credit for their contributions and celebrated for them.
However, fewer than half of Black adults in the U.S. think Black Americans are celebrated or given enough credit for their contributions. Culture was not defined in the survey, leaving respondents to interpret.
More than two in three Americans say they are very or somewhat familiar with Black contributions to culture, with Black Americans most likely to report familiarly. Among Black adults, 80% said they were familiar and 51% very familiar with Black influences on culture.
White adults were most likely to say Black Americans were given enough credit and celebration for contributions, with 61% saying Black influences are given a lot or some credit for contributions and 67% saying those contributions are celebrated.
Nearly half of Americans said they learned about those contributions in K-12 school, while more than half said they learned about Black cultural contributions through friends, family, media or personal experiences.
Americans between 18 and 39 are more likely to say they learned about Black contributions in school at 51% compared to 43% of Americans 40 and older.
Not all schools teach classes in culture or art and in recent years, some states have moved to ban the teaching of “critical race theory.”
While critical race theory is a topic only taught in higher education, those laws have had an effect on the teaching of race in K-12 schools.