Desegregation as National Policy: Correlates of Racial Attitudes

Scott, Richard R.; McPartland, James M.

doi:10.3102/00028312019003397

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“…For example, if cross-race contacts in desegregated schools reduce White students' negative racial stereotypes and fears of hostile reactions in interracial situations, then these White students as adults will be less resistant to Blacks being admitted into coworker and friendship groups. Recent tabulations of racial attitude questions from national surveys of Black and White students do suggest that school desegregation does create more positive reactions, among Blacks and Whites, to future interracial situations (Scott and McPartland, 1982).…”

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Social-Psychological Processes That Perpetuate Racial Segregation

Braddock

McPartland

1989

Journal of Black Studies

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Social-Psychological Processes That Perpetuate Racial Segregation

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McPartland

1989

Journal of Black Studies

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“…Although young Whites' racial attitudes are expected to have shifted over the past quarter century, it is also the case that the influence of key factors historically linked to the expression of prejudice are likely to have shifted as well. As young Whites' racial attitudes have improved, social scientists have identified a number of determinants of their attitudes (Bullock, 1976(Bullock, , 1978Forman, 2001;Johnson & Marini, 1998;Patchen, 1982;Regens & Bullock, 1979;Scott & McPartland, 1982). 4 Theoretical explanations of variation in young Whites' racial attitudes fall into the following categories: (a) social background, (b) social values, and (c) academic orientation.…”

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“…4 Theoretical explanations of variation in young Whites’ racial attitudes fall into the following categories: (a) social background, (b) social values, and (c) academic orientation. Specifically, the most consistent and robust finding in the literature links a number of social background factors (e.g., gender, socioeconomic status, urbanicity, and region) with White youth’s racial attitudes (Bullock, 1976, 1978; Forman, 2001; Patchen, 1982; Regens & Bullock, 1979; Scott & McPartland, 1982). For example, several studies have shown that young males tend to be more racially prejudiced than young females (Forman, 2001; Johnson & Marini, 1998).…”

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Beyond Prejudice? Young Whites’ Racial Attitudes in Post–Civil Rights America, 1976 to 2000

Forman

Lewis

2015

American Behavioral Scientist

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A key finding from previous research on trends in Whites' racial attitudes is that much of the decline in the expression of racial prejudice over the past seven decades can be attributed to the replacement of older, less tolerant White cohorts by younger, more tolerant cohorts of Whites in the U.S. population (i.e., cohort replacement). An implicit assumption of much of this work is that cohort replacement will continue to produce unidirectional liberalizing trends in Whites' racial attitudes because of the more tolerant attitudes of each younger cohort. In this article, we reexamine the cohort replacement hypothesis focusing on young Whites' racial attitudes and whether change is in substance or form. We develop a theoretical argument about the shifting nature of young Whites' racial attitudes and understandings in the post-civil rights era by building on Forman's concept of racial apathy and the expanding literature on color-blind racism, which posits that during the post-civil rights era, subtle forms of racial prejudice have become more prevalent than overt forms. We empirically test this argument by investigating trends in, and determinants of, young Whites' racial attitudes from 1976 to 2000, using nationally representative samples of White high school seniors. Although we find a liberalizing trend for some racial attitudes, we do not find a similar pattern for contemporary forms of prejudice, particularly racial apathy. In addition, we find that the social determinants of young Whites' social distance attitudes (traditional prejudice) and expressions of racial apathy (contemporary prejudice) have been remarkably consistent over time. Collectively, these results indicate the need for greater attention to the expression of subtle forms of prejudice among young Whites generally, and to the potentially destructive force of rising levels of racial apathy specifically.

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“…Second, we know little about adolescents’ attitudes about race and sexual orientation, and what we do know is decades old (e.g., Bullock, 1978; Lombardi, 1963; Riordan, 1978; Scott & McPartland, 1982; Useem, 1976). To be sure, some studies in the last decade have examined prejudice in adolescents and have generally shown that, similar to adults, adolescents favor their own and high status groups more than they favor out-groups or low status groups (Hailey & Olson, 2013; Raabe & Beelmann, 2011; Smith, Shepperd, Miller, & Graber, 2016).…”

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The link between religiousness and prejudice: Testing competing explanations in an adolescent sample.

Shepperd

Pogge

Lipsey

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Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Research links intrinsic religiousness to less prejudice toward Black people and greater prejudice toward gay people. We examined longitudinally in a sample of 865 adolescents three variables that might serve as a mediator of attitudes toward Black people yet produce a suppression effect in attitudes toward gay people: (a) humanitarian values, (b) favorable evaluations of social groups, and (c) socially desirable responding. In light of evidence that Black people on average are more religious than are White people, we also examined whether self-identifying as Black helped explain racial prejudice. Our mediation analyses provided strong evidence that humanitarian values and the tendency to view all social groups favorably accounted for the relationship between intrinsic religiousness and positive attitudes toward Black people. We found no support that socially desirable responding or identifying as Black accounted for our effects. Consistent with a suppression effect, controlling statistically for the agreeable aspects of religiousness strengthened the relationship between intrinsic religiousness and prejudice toward gay people. These findings illustrate mechanisms through which intrinsic religiousness can correspond both positively and negatively with attitudes toward marginalized groups.

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Desegregation as National Policy: Correlates of Racial Attitudes

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Social-Psychological Processes That Perpetuate Racial Segregation

Social-Psychological Processes That Perpetuate Racial Segregation

Beyond Prejudice? Young Whites’ Racial Attitudes in Post–Civil Rights America, 1976 to 2000

The link between religiousness and prejudice: Testing competing explanations in an adolescent sample.

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