Racial Attitudes Through a Partisan Lens

Engelhardt, Andrew M.

doi:10.1017/s0007123419000437

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“…After all, it is predominantly (although not exclusively) Republicans who are driving the dehumanizing rhetoric found in the current events reviewed here. It should be no surprise, then, that recent research finds that whites' negative attitudes toward racial outgroups are becoming "increasingly tightly tied to parties" in the post-Obama era (Valentino et al, 2018), even as racial sympathy (Chudy, 2021) may be increasingly concentrated among white Democrats, perhaps due to partisan loyalties shaping racial attitudes (Engelhardt, 2020). It may be that measures designed to capture dehumanizing attitudes would show a similar pattern.…”

Section: Uniting a Fragmented Fieldmentioning

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Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice

Jardina

Piston

2021

Sociology Compass

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In the media, during sporting events, in online forums, and in interpersonal interactions, whites often portray Black people as animals, especially as apes or monkeys. In this essay we consider what contemporary research on prejudice in American politics has to say about these dehumanizing portrayals of Black people. We argue that contemporary political science work has not done enough to understand both the historical roots and the continuing practices of whites' dehumanization of Black people, to the detriment of an accurate understanding of racial attitudes in the United States. To rectify this omission, we draw on the work of historians to map out a brief overview of racemaking and the dehumanizing attitudes that shaped this process. Then, we review political science literature on contemporary white attitudes toward Black people, emphasizing connections between prevailing conceptions of these attitudes and long-standing processes of dehumanization. We conclude by charting directions for future scholarship; we seek to unsettle the mainstream of a subfield dominated by mild conceptions of racial attitudes.

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Section: Uniting a Fragmented Fieldmentioning

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Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice

Jardina

Piston

2021

Sociology Compass

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“…We carried out our investigation within the context of two presidential elections that featured heightened tensions between blacks and whites-the 2012 election where the first black president was reelected and the 2016 election where a president embracing racist rhetoric was elected, using the 2012 and 2016 ANES datasets collected immediately following the elections. Besides the attitudinal variables measuring the authoritarian-conservatism motivation and the dominance motivation proposed in the DPM model, we included measures of political party affiliation, considering the nature of the American polarizing party system and its relations to personality and social attitudes [18][19][20][21][22]. We hypothesized that three personality traits, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience, would be directly associated with anti-black prejudice beyond social and ideological attitudes.…”

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Personality traits are directly associated with anti-black prejudice in the United States

Lin

Alvarez

2020

PLoS ONE

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Modern psychological theories postulate that individual differences in prejudice are determined by social and ideological attitudes instead of personality. For example, the dual-process motivational (DPM) model argues that personality does not directly associate with prejudice when controlling for the attitudinal variables that capture the authoritarian-conservatism motivation and the dominance motivation. Previous studies testing the DPM model largely relied on convenience samples and/or European samples, and have produced inconsistent results. Here we examined the extent to which anti-black prejudice was associated with the Big Five personality traits and social and ideological attitudes (authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, political party affiliation) in two large probability samples of the general population (N 1 = 3,132; N 2 = 2,483) from the American National Election Studies (ANES). We performed structural equation modeling (SEM) to test the causal assumptions between the latent variables and used survey weights to generate estimates that were representative of the population. Different from prior theories, across both datasets we found that two personality traits, agreeableness and conscientiousness, were directly associated with anti-black prejudice when controlling for authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and political party affiliation. We also found that a substantial part of the associations between personality traits and anti-black prejudice were mediated through those social and ideological attitudes, which might serve as candidates for prejudice-reduction interventions in the real world.

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“…As such, I use "White Liberals" rather than "White Democrats", given that the two-racial attitudes and partisanship-have not always correlated to the extent that they do now. For more, see Engelhardt's (2021) "Racial Attitudes Through a Partisan Lens" or Sach's (2019) "Why the Democrats Have Shifted Left Over the Last 30 Years" at FiveThirtyEight.com. 6 Throughout this piece, I use "the state" and "the federal government" interchangeably.…”

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From “Freedom Now!” to “Black Lives Matter”: Retrieving King and Randolph to Theorize Contemporary White Antiracism

Clemons¹

2022

Perspect. polit.

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Many were taken aback by the initial spike in support for Black Lives Matter among white Americans during the summer of 2020. But will these antiracist attitudes translate into antiracist behavior? Accordingly, I ask under what conditions do white Americans engage in antiracist behavior? To answer this question, I build upon the insights of Martin Luther King, Jr., and A. Philip Randolph to theorize contemporary white antiracism. I argue that, under neoliberal capitalism, the conditions they laid out as necessary for the cultivation of productive antiracist politics have been difficult to satisfy. In lieu of that, in many instances, has been the privatization of racial responsibility, which I coin to describe a form of antiracist politics that relies upon white individuals’ sympathetic (and often symbolic) gestures rather than the implementation of more state programs to address structural racial injustices. I discuss what this development might mean for the Black Lives Matter movement—and the Black Freedom Struggle writ large—moving forward.

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Racial Attitudes Through a Partisan Lens

Cited by 42 publications

References 62 publications

Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice

Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice

Personality traits are directly associated with anti-black prejudice in the United States

From “Freedom Now!” to “Black Lives Matter”: Retrieving King and Randolph to Theorize Contemporary White Antiracism

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