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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Whites--Attitudes"”.
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White racial attitudes in the age of Obama
<p>What is the nature of White racial attitudes in the age of Obama? This dissertation project seeks to answer this question in three distinct ways. The first empirical chapter examines the role of economic insecurity and education on White racial attitudes. The second empirical chapter evaluates …
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Income Inequality and Prejudice in the US
… to test the effects of income inequality on attitudes toward US minority groups from the American Election Studies, from 1970-2008. Rising income inequality as measured by Gini predicted prejudice towards African Americans by White Americans across states and time. Rising income inequality …
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Racial, not rational : economic threat, symbolic racism, and affirmative action
… scholars have debated the determinants of whites' attitudes about racialized policies such as welfare, busing, and affirmative action. While some have argued that whites formulate their positions rationally according to perceived economic threat, others have asserted that such policy …
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Exploring the impact of Asian stereotype endorsement, multicultural counseling competence, and motivation to respond without prejudice on White therapists' clinical judgment
People have the tendency to rely on stereotypes while making judgments due to limitations of cognitive capacity. The shifting standards model suggests that people tend to use stereotypes as a standard when they make subjective judgments about members of stereotyped groups and that they …