Ideology Matters: College Students’ Emotional Reactions to the Killing of Trayvon Martin

Blackmon, Sha'kema; Neville, Helen A.; Thomas, Anita

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“…Previous studies have shown that critical consciousness is inversely related to social dominance theory (Thomas et al, 2014), yet another kind of system justification ideology. Blackmon et al (2019) found that college students with higher levels of awareness regarding prejudice reduced the effects of colorblindness on prosocial empathic responses.…”

Section: Colorblindnessmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Awareness, social cognition, and commitment: Developing a social justice orientation in psychology training programs.

Gushue¹,

Lee²,

Postolache³

et al. 2022

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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This study investigates how the awareness of social inequities and racism may serve as a foundation for psychology trainees' social justice self-efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations, interests, and commitment. Using the social-cognitive justice developmental framework proposed by Miller et al. (2009), a total of 222 participants were recruited from accredited applied psychology programs across the United States. Participants completed measures assessing their levels of two dimensions of critical consciousness: Egalitarianism and awareness of inequality (Diemer et al., 2017), their colorblind racial attitudes (Neville et al., 2000), and their social justice self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interests, and commitment (Miller et al., 2009). A hypothesized path model was fit to the data. Alternative models were also considered. Results indicated that participants who endorsed egalitarianism and were more aware of social inequities showed greater awareness of racism and, in turn, were more likely to endorse a higher orientation and commitment to social justice. Limitations and implications for future research and training are discussed. Public Significance StatementThis study sought to better understand the factors supporting the promotion of social justice interests and commitment among psychologists in training. We found that trainees who had developed a greater critical awareness of systemic inequality and who endorsed egalitarian attitudes were more likely to be aware of racism in various forms (e.g., blatant racism, institutional racism, and White privilege) and that this was related to endorsing social justice beliefs, expectations, interests, and commitment. These findings highlight the importance of critical attention to social and historical context in clinical training.

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Section: Colorblindnessmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…In a study (Blackmon et al, 2019) that explored both colorblindness and critical reflection, researchers conceptualized colorblindness as a race-specific indicator of system justification ideology. They defined a system justification ideology as one that seeks to maintain that hierarchical order of society.…”

Section: Colorblindnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Awareness, social cognition, and commitment: Developing a social justice orientation in psychology training programs.

Gushue¹,

Lee²,

Postolache³

et al. 2022

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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“…The majority of studies in this area focus on power evasion CBRI and have used the Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (Wang et al, 2003). Medium associations have been found among helping professionals (Domenech Rodríguez et al, 2019) and medium-to-large effects among college students (Blackmon et al, 2019;Kleiman et al, 2015). It appears, however, that power evasion beliefs are not significantly related to the perspective-taking dimension of racial/ethnocultural empathy or the ability to cognitively understand the experiences of people who are racially or ethnically different than oneself (e.g., Kleiman et al, 2015).…”

Section: Empathymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ignoring race and denying racism: A meta-analysis of the associations between colorblind racial ideology, anti-Blackness, and other variables antithetical to racial justice.

Yi¹,

Neville²,

Todd³

et al. 2023

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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One critical role counseling psychologists can play in dismantling anti-Blackness and eradicating systemic racism is to build on the field's strength in understanding individual-level processes (i.e., systems are created and maintained by individual actors). Drawing on antiracism scholarship, we aimed to better understand how colorblind racial ideology (CBRI), or the denial and minimization of race and racism, may serve as a barrier to engaging in antiracist praxis. Specifically, we conducted a meta-analysis to determine if color evasion (ignoring race) and power evasion (denying structural racism) CBRI were differentially associated with anti-Blackness and processes linked to antiracism. Findings based on 375 effects drawn from 83 studies with more than 25,000 individuals suggest different effects based on CBRI type. As hypothesized, we found that power evasion CBRI was related to increased endorsement of anti-Black prejudice (r = .33) and legitimizing ideologies (r = .24), and negatively associated with a range of other variables associated with antiracism, including social justice behaviors (r = −.31), multicultural practice competencies (r = −.16), diversity openness (r = −.28), and racial/ethnocultural empathy (r = −.35). Consistent with theory, color evasion CBRI was related to increased diversity openness (r = .12). We discuss limitations of our study, as well as outline future directions for research and practice to focus on the role of CBRI in sustaining and perpetuating anti-Blackness and systemic racism. Thus, this meta-analysis has implications for pushing the field of counseling psychology to build the bridge between individual ideologies and creating structural change. Public Significance StatementIn this article, we synthesized results from 83 studies that examined colorblind racial ideology (i.e., denying and minimizing the importance of race and racism). We found that endorsing colorblind racial ideology, particularly power evasion (denying racism) rather than color evasion (ignoring race), was associated with higher anti-Black prejudice, lower racial/ethnocultural empathy, and lower multicultural competencies.

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“…Much of the racism response literature identifies these emotions as common during and following an experience of racism (Carter, 2007; Harrell, 2000; Williams et al, 2019). Blackmon et al (2019) also reported how the racial group one belongs to explains differences in emotional responding to racially charged events. Though the VRHS was (a) not specifically directed at the participating students, (b) presented within a research/data collection context, and (c) participants were apprised of the racist language contained in the stimulus per the informed consent procedures, the content of the language, the use of stereotypes about Black people, the racial slurs, and the vitriol communicated in the five-minute audio clip was enough to elicit a negative affective experience for many of the participants.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Race-Based Stress Reactions and Recovery: Pilot Testing a Racial Trauma Meditation

Hargons

Malone

Montique

et al. 2021

Journal of Black Psychology

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Twenty-six Black collegians were exposed to a vicarious racial harassment stimulus (VRHS) then randomized into a Black Lives Matter Meditation for Healing Racial Trauma condition or a silence control condition. Heart rate (HR) was recorded throughout the experiment. Semi-structured interviews were then conducted to elicit participants’ appraisal of the VRHS and meditation. Using a Qual:Quan mixed methods experimental design, this pilot study qualitatively categorized how participants (1) described their reactions to the VRHS and (2) appraised the meditation. Participants described three types of race-based stress reactions and reported mostly positive appraisal of the meditation, although some indicated that it would not be a preferred coping strategy. To triangulate the quantitative findings, we found a significant increase in HR during VRHS. The meditation group displayed statistically significant reductions in HR from stimulus to the end of meditation; however, there were no statistically significant differences between the control and meditation groups. Results have implications for understanding and facilitating race-based stress recovery.

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Ideology Matters: College Students’ Emotional Reactions to the Killing of Trayvon Martin

Cited by 6 publications

References 53 publications

Awareness, social cognition, and commitment: Developing a social justice orientation in psychology training programs.

Awareness, social cognition, and commitment: Developing a social justice orientation in psychology training programs.

Ignoring race and denying racism: A meta-analysis of the associations between colorblind racial ideology, anti-Blackness, and other variables antithetical to racial justice.

Race-Based Stress Reactions and Recovery: Pilot Testing a Racial Trauma Meditation

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