The Ben Carson Effect: Do voters prefer racialized or deracialized black conservatives?

Leslie, Gregory John; Stout, Christopher; Tolbert, Naomi

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.12.002

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“…Authors have notably sought to understand when and why white voters would be willing or not to support candidates of color. Expected behaviors from white voters range from aversive racism (Terkildsen, 1993) to extreme positive or negative reactions when faced with a “transgression” of race-based assumptions (Sigelman et al ., 1995; Leslie et al ., 2019). However, the authors report mixed evidence of discrimination at the polls based on the association with an out-group.…”

Section: Voters and Politicians Of Colormentioning

confidence: 99%

“I think Canadians look like all sorts of people”: ethnicity, political leadership, and the case of Jagmeet Singh

Bouchard

2021

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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Research into the impact of a politician's sociodemographic profile on vote choice in Westminster-style systems has been hindered by the relative sociodemographic homogeneity of party leaders. Past research has focused mainly on the evaluation of local candidates in the American context, but given that elections in plurality systems are far less candidate-oriented , the evaluation of local candidates tells us little about the prevalence of affinity or discrimination in other contexts. This article investigates the effect of political leaders' ethnicity on political behavior by looking at the case of Jagmeet Singh in Canada, the first federal party leader of color in the country's history. While the literature has shown that the gender of leaders in Canada can matter, little is known about the attitudes of Canadians toward party leaders of color specifically. We are interested in the evaluations of Singh and his party, as well as the shifts in voting intentions between elections in 2015 and 2019. We uncover affinity-based behaviors from individuals who identify as Sikh, as well as a negative reception of Singh's candidacy in Quebec.

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Section: Voters and Politicians Of Colormentioning

confidence: 99%

“I think Canadians look like all sorts of people”: ethnicity, political leadership, and the case of Jagmeet Singh

Bouchard

2021

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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“…While research documents the presence of racially conservative black people (Leslie, Stout and Tolbert 2019;Lewis 2013), generally, black people are more likely to support favorable racial perspectives than white Americans (Mangum and Block 2021;Vidal 2018). Racial issues can impact the well-being of black people as a group, and racial consciousness has a vital role in voter issue preference for black people (Clawson, Kegler and Waltenburg 2003).…”

Section: Black Racial Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining Racial Attitudes: Race, Political Identity, Education, and Religious Outgrouping

Yancey

2024

Review of Religious Research

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This analysis investigates favorable racial attitudes toward blacks. Blacks and educated politically progressive whites tend to have such favorable attitudes. Due to cultural polarization, the rejection of conservative Christians may be tied to favorable racial attitudes among educated progressive whites. This study examines the possibility that political identity and religious outgrouping are connected to favorable racial attitudes of educated progressive whites. The dataset is drawn from the 2020 American National Elections Survey, a nationally representative survey in the United States that asks about a range of political issues and attitudes ( n = 8,178). The key construct of interest is racial attitudes, specifically favorable attitudes toward black Americans. This is measured as an index of five questions regarding survey respondent views of black hiring preferences, special favors, slavery difficulties, deservingness, and trying hard. Attitudes of warmth toward conservative Christians are inversely related to supporting favorable racial attitudes among educated white progressives. However, warmth toward conservative Christians are not related to favorable racial attitudes among black Americans. Favorable racial attitudes can result from outgrouping needs of perceived politically and religiously abhorrent social identities. Polarization may result in educated political progressives supporting blacks.

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“…In his "rules of racial standing," Derrick Bell thus identifies an exception to the general principle that Black testimony on racial issues is systematically derided or dismissed by the white majority: a "[B]lack person who publicly disparages or criticizes other [B]lacks who are speaking or acting in ways that upset whites" is not dismissed but rather "granted 'enhanced standing'" (Bell 1992, 114). Recent research suggests that whites, especially white conservatives, prefer Black conservatives who explicitly racialize their appeals over Blacks who adopt a still conservative, but deracialized, political posture-a phenomenon dubbed the "Ben Carson effect" (Leslie, Stout, and Tolbert 2019). While dissident minorities have a legitimate grievance in being presumed to be motivated by careerism or disloyalty, it also is simply true that in many cases "defection is rewarded" (Starkey 2015, 38).…”

Section: Distinctive Powermentioning

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The Distinctive Political Status of Dissident Minorities

Schraub

2020

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“Dissident minorities” are members of marginalized groups who dissent from the consensus group position on matters seen as critical to their group’s collective liberation. This paper articulates the distinctive political status—powers, vulnerabilities, and obligations—of dissident minorities. Dissident minorities may be especially vulnerable to slurs or ostracism as “self-hating.” But they also can wield significant public influence by positioning themselves as exceptional and exemplary members of their group. Both the powers and vulnerabilities of dissident minorities, in turn, converge around the prospect of “tokenization”—the use of the dissident minority’s dissident opinion by majority group actors as a means of discharging a stipulated obligation to engage with the minority group writ large. While dissident minorities should be free to hold and advocate for their divergent positions in public spaces, they retain a distinctive obligation to not offer themselves out as adequate replacements for engagement with the broader group.

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The Ben Carson Effect: Do voters prefer racialized or deracialized black conservatives?

Cited by 9 publications

References 44 publications

“I think Canadians look like all sorts of people”: ethnicity, political leadership, and the case of Jagmeet Singh

“I think Canadians look like all sorts of people”: ethnicity, political leadership, and the case of Jagmeet Singh

Explaining Racial Attitudes: Race, Political Identity, Education, and Religious Outgrouping

The Distinctive Political Status of Dissident Minorities

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