Whites' racial affect: understanding the antiracist type

To learn more about the antiracist racial affect type, as measured by the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites scale (PCRW; Spanierman & Heppner, 2004), the researchers conducted two focus groups. One group was comprised of White students (n = 5) whose scores reflected the antiracist racial affect type, whereas the other was comprised of White students (n = 6) who did not score as antiracist. Using a modified version of the Consensual Qualitative Research method (Hill, Thompson, & Williams, 1997), analysis revealed six topic domains: (a) manifestations of racial awareness, (b) experiences with diversity while growing up, (c) experiences with diversity at the university, (d) emotional responses to racial issues, (e) perceptions of the former racialized mascot of the university, and (f) expressions of racism. Further validating the PCRW, findings indicated that White students who scored as antiracist differed in important ways from those who did not score as antiracist. Moreover, the students in the antiracist affect type demonstrated a number of similarities to how antiracists have been described in the broader interdisciplinary literature.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2012

Author dc:creator

• Kordesh, Kathleen

Contributors dc:contributor

• Spanierman, Lisa B.

• antiracists
• White racial attitudes
• costs of racism to Whites
• racism

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2011 Kathleen Kordesh

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/29648

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/29648