The 2008 presidential election, political efficacy, and group empowerment

Stout, Christopher; Tate, Katherine

doi:10.1080/21565503.2013.785960

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“…The emergence of a black athlete activists like Colin Kaepernick may nonetheless have an empowering celebrity-elite influence as blacks move between protest and politics (Stout and Tate 2013; Tate 1991). Attention to black political empowerment was resurgent but short-lived following the election of Barack Obama as president.…”

Section: The Case For Colin Kaepernickmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shut Up and Play: Black Athletes, Protest Politics, and Black Political Action

Towler¹,

Crawford²,

Bennett³

2019

Perspect. polit.

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The convergence of sports and celebrity can have a powerful influence on everyday politics, especially for groups underrepresented in mainstream American society. This article examines the relationship between race, celebrity, and social movements, specifically Colin Kaepernick’s protest of police violence and whether his activism mobilizes black Americans to political action. Using the 2017 Black Voter Project (BVP) Pilot Study, we explore African American political engagement in the 2016 election, a time devoid of President Obama as a mobilizing figure. We find African Americans who strongly approve of Kaepernick’s protest engage in politics at elevated rates, even after accounting for alternative explanations. Moreover, approval for Kaepernick also moderates other forces rooted in group identity, such as identification with the Black Lives Matter movement. In the end, Kaepernick and the protest movement he leads offers a powerful mobilizing force for African Americans.

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confidence: 99%

Shut Up and Play: Black Athletes, Protest Politics, and Black Political Action

Towler¹,

Crawford²,

Bennett³

2019

Perspect. polit.

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“…Internal political efficacy is the self-assessment of one's personal capacity for politics and, as such, reflects an explicitly political component of self-esteem (Finkel 1987;Harris 1994;Shingles 1981). Consistent with the aforementioned social psychological research on self-esteem (e.g., Crocker and Quinn 2003;Leary 2012;Quinn and Crocker 1999), internal political efficacy is also responsive to salient situational factors, particularly among members of low-status groups (e.g., see Stout and Tate 2013). Hence, I predicted that exposure to political information that derogates African-Americans would be particularly consequential for this political component of self-esteem among African-Americans, but exert a negligible effect on Whites.…”

Section: Self-esteem and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Effects of Anti-Black Political Messages on Self-Esteem

Lyle

2015

J Exp Polit Sci

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This study examines how anti-Black political rhetoric affects race-specific collective selfesteem (R-CSE) and internal political efficacy among African-Americans and Whites. Results from an experiment in which subjects received an anti-Black stereotype-accentuating message attributed to either a political figure or an "ordinary American," or no message at all, demonstrate that the political message undermined how African-Americans regard their own racial group, activated beliefs about how others regard African-Americans as a predictor of how African-Americans regard their own racial group, and undermined internal political efficacy. For Whites, the results demonstrate that the political message moderated the relationship between how they regard their own racial group and beliefs about how others regard their racial group, though the political message did not significantly increase or decrease racial group-regard or political efficacy overall. These results provide empirical confirmation of the role that government and politics can play in self-esteem. Keywords: Self-esteem, race-specific collective self-esteem, internal political efficacy, antiBlack political rhetoric.In their capacity to define groups and confer status, governments inevitably affect citizens' self-esteem (Lane 1982). Yet, as research on self-esteem has grown and evolved over the last several decades, the ways that government and politics facilitate, stifle, and otherwise affect how individuals regard themselves and the groups to which they belong received little empirical examination. This study examines how political rhetoric that devalues one racial group affects self-and group-regard among the group's members and non-members. In particular, this study examines the effect of anti-Black political rhetoric on two components of self-esteem-race-specific collective self-esteem (R-CSE) and internal political efficacy-among AfricanAmericans and Whites. the anonymous reviewers for helpful feedback at various stages of this project.

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“…In U.S. politics, accounting for racial identity demonstrates that the supposed "gender gap" in women preferring Democratic to Republican candidates disappears, with white women selecting Republican presidents in an overwhelming majority of previous elections (Junn and Masuoka, 2020). White women are more likely to vote and prefer policies connected to their race and partisanship over their gender (Cassese and Barnes, 2018), and Black women also politically engage in ways more consistent with linked fate toward their racial rather than gender group (Stout and Tate, 2013). Thus, an intersectional lens is necessary to fully understand the experiences and preferences of women, particularly of Black American women (Crenshaw, 1989;Hancock, 2007;Brown, 2014).…”

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Hostile, Benevolent, Implicit: How Different Shades of Sexism Impact Gendered Policy Attitudes

2022

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Advances in gender equality and progressive policies are often stymied by cultural sexist systems and individual-level sexist attitudes. These attitudes are pervasive but vary in type—from benevolent to hostile and implicit to explicit. Understanding the types of sexism and their foundations are important for identifying connections to specific social and political attitudes and behaviors. The current study examines the impact of various manifestations of sexism on attitudes regarding policies and public opinion issues that involve gender equality or have gendered implications. More specifically, we look at attitudes on reproductive rights, support for the #MeToo Movement, equal pay, and paid leave policies. In Study 1 we use data from a high-quality web panel (n = 1,400) to look at the relationship between hostile, benevolent, and implicit sexism, and reproductive rights attitudes, as well as support for the #MeToo Movement. In Study 2 we use data from the American National Election Study (n = 4,270) to examine the relationship between hostile and modern sexism and attitudes on abortion, equal pay, and paid family leave. Overall, these results reveal a complicated relationship between different conceptualizations of sexism and gendered attitudes, underscoring the need to consider how different forms of sexism shape broader social and political views, from both a normative perspective for societal change and a measurement approach for research precision.

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The 2008 presidential election, political efficacy, and group empowerment

Cited by 6 publications

References 40 publications

Shut Up and Play: Black Athletes, Protest Politics, and Black Political Action

Shut Up and Play: Black Athletes, Protest Politics, and Black Political Action

Effects of Anti-Black Political Messages on Self-Esteem

Hostile, Benevolent, Implicit: How Different Shades of Sexism Impact Gendered Policy Attitudes

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