A Challenge to Critical Understandings of Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert M Anthony (0000-0002-7283-7825, The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 260-282 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2012.00489.x |
| OpenAlex | W2139512511 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
In this article, I demonstrate fundamental weaknesses in the ability of critical understandings of race to produce reliable knowledge of how social actors use social comparisons as a way to align self with ingroup. I trace these weaknesses to two sources: The first is relying on social status as an explanation for race‐based assessments, ingroup motivations, and social constructions of otherness. This is opposed to leaning on assessments grounded in social psychological research that links properties of human cognition to the development and maintenance of social identities. The second weakness is an open support for activist research that is often situated in radical multiculturalism. Because critical race scholars openly side with racial minorities’ interests, they tend to establish incomplete assessments of social behaviors and social constructs linked to racial identities in order to maintain their stated political allegiances. To demonstrate these and other weaknesses, I draw upon the theoretical insights of social identity theory which is used to reassess Bell and Hartmann's (2007) critical race analysis of diversity dialogue in American society
Aesthetics · Diversity (politics · Epistemology · Identity (music · Ingroups and outgroups · Multiculturalism · Race (biology · Situated · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · Strengths and weaknesses · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Varieties of social explanation
Social identity theory
A Primer on Critical Race Theory
Why is multiculturalism good?
Human ecology
Revisting Assimilation
Racism Without Racists
Rediscovering the Social Group
Social Identifications
Time and the study of assimilation
Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem, and Ethnocentrism
Multiculturalism, ?political correctness,? and the politics of identity
Integration and assimilation of Moroccan immigrants in Israel and the Netherlands
The impact of multiculturalism versus color-blindness on racial bias
Critical race theory
Ideologies of Diversity and Inequality
Stereotypes and ethnocentrism
Ethnic Group Identification and Group Evaluation Among Minority and Majority Groups
Classification and Quantitative Judgement
Diversity in Everyday Discourse
The Negro stereotype and perceptual accentuation
Stereotyping and favorableness in the perception of Negro faces
Dealing with Diversity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |