The Pitfalls and Promise of Increasing Racial Diversity: Threat, Contact, and Race Relations in the 21st Century

Craig, Maureen A.; Rucker, Julian M.; Richeson, Jennifer A.

doi:10.1177/0963721417727860

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“…Given recent calls for research examining how changing racial and ethnic demographics may impact intergroup relations (Craig et al, 2017), these findings illustrate the benefits of increasing racial diversity within our society. We found that monoracial POC and multiracial individuals experienced fewer microaggressions and discrimination when living in a diverse context.…”

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Experiences with microaggressions and discrimination in racially diverse and homogeneously white contexts.

Meyers¹,

Aumer²,

Schoniwitz³

et al. 2020

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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The interaction between one's context and identity may be essential in understanding people's racial experiences. Objectives: In this study we examined two contexts (racially diverse vs. homogenously White) and measured the experiences of discrimination and microaggressions for monoracial People of Color (POC), multiracial, and White individuals. Additionally, we measured experience of microaggressions with a new scale that addressed multiracial specific microaggressions, and offensiveness of these microaggressions. Methods and Results: Through a self-reported survey, monoracial POC, multiracial, and White individuals across the U.S. reported their experiences with discrimination and microaggressions, and offensiveness of multiracial specific microaggressions. Overall, monoracial POC and multiracial individuals reported experiencing less discrimination and microaggressions in diverse contexts vs. homogenous contexts. White individuals reported the lowest amounts of discrimination and microaggressions, which did not differ across contexts. Conclusions: Living in a racially diverse context may have positive benefits for racial minorities, and White individuals do not necessarily experience greater instances of discrimination or microaggressions in diverse contexts.

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Experiences with microaggressions and discrimination in racially diverse and homogeneously white contexts.

Meyers¹,

Aumer²,

Schoniwitz³

et al. 2020

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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“…Several scholars have noted individual ways in which researchers contribute to the generation of knowledge on issues surrounding race and racism, including the use of racially diverse samples (e.g., Richeson, 2018;Stewart & Sweetman, 2018) and examining the effects of racial diversity on individual and collective outcomes (e.g., Bell, Leopold, Berry, & Hall, 2018;Craig, Rucker, & Richeson, 2018;Plaut, Thomas, Hurd, & Romano, 2018;Richeson & Sommers, 2016). Each of these elements is important.…”

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Forging Diversity‐Science‐Informed Guidelines for Research on Race and Racism in Psychological Science

Miller

Stern

Neville

2019

Journal of Social Issues

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As race and racism continue to be important subjects of research in psychology, guidelines for scholarship in this domain of inquiry are strongly needed. Drawing from the foundations of previous discussions of diversity science, we propose five principles that can help scholars conduct generative research on race and racism. Specifically, research on race and racism is strengthened when scholars: (1) are mindful of historical patterns of oppression and inequality, (2) adopt a racially diverse team science approach, (3) utilize diverse samples, (4) consider the influence of multiple identity groups on human experience, and (5) promote the translation of knowledge from the laboratory to the field. In outlining our proposed guidelines, we elaborate on why this discussion for research about race and racism is needed at this particular point of the field's history.

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“…First, the political salience of other racial and ethnic minority groups, especially Latinos, has been increasing (Abrajano & Hajnal, ; Collingwood, Barreto, & Garcia‐Rios, ). Indeed, the growth and dispersion of the Latino population have been shown to trigger feelings of racial and cultural threat among whites (Craig, Rucker, & Richeson, ; Enos, ; Hopkins, ; Newman, ; Ostfeld, ), increase conservative sentiment and Republican Party support (Craig & Richeson, 2014; Newman, Shah, & Collingwood, ; Reny, Collingwood, & Valenzuela, ), expand support for punitive anti‐immigrant policy (Abrajano & Hajnal, ), and bolster anti‐immigrant policy entrepreneurs at the state and local levels (Gulasekaram & Ramakrishnan, ). While politicians continue to capitalize on anti‐Latino sentiment for electoral gain, little is known about the persuasive effects of implicit and explicit appeals aimed at denigrating Latinos (although see Hopkins & Ostfeld, ).…”

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“No, You're Playing the Race Card”: Testing the Effects of Anti‐Black, Anti‐Latino, and Anti‐Immigrant Appeals in the Post‐Obama Era

Reny

Valenzuela

Collingwood

2019

Political Psychology

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Despite a sizable literature on racial priming, scholars have failed to account for the shifting nature of racial appeals. First, theories of racial priming have not yet been widely applied to increasingly common anti‐immigrant and anti‐Latino political appeals. Second, theories of racial priming have not adequately accounted for both an increasingly racialized political climate and increased tolerance for explicit anti‐minority appeals. In two survey experiments fielded both before Trump's rise and after his presidential victory, we find the Implicit‐Explicit (IE) model always fails for anti‐black appeals, sometimes fails for anti‐immigrant appeals, but consistently holds for anti‐Latino appeals. While we find the null effects of implicit versus explicit anti‐black and anti‐immigrant appeals are partly driven by tolerance for the explicit appeals, we also find evidence that white Americans are adept at recognizing the racial content of appeals featuring widely used, congruent issue‐group pairs. Our findings shed light on conditions under which the IE model does and does not hold in the current political era.

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The Pitfalls and Promise of Increasing Racial Diversity: Threat, Contact, and Race Relations in the 21st Century

Cited by 122 publications

References 45 publications

Experiences with microaggressions and discrimination in racially diverse and homogeneously white contexts.

Experiences with microaggressions and discrimination in racially diverse and homogeneously white contexts.

Forging Diversity‐Science‐Informed Guidelines for Research on Race and Racism in Psychological Science

“No, You're Playing the Race Card”: Testing the Effects of Anti‐Black, Anti‐Latino, and Anti‐Immigrant Appeals in the Post‐Obama Era

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