G Yancey
Biographic Data
| ID | 9168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Yancey |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Yancey |
| SIGNATURE | YANCEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5591-6604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 678 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Restorative Frame: A Grounded Theory Study of Protective Factors for Foster Care Disruptions
This study used grounded theory to explore the protective factors for foster care placement disruptions. Twenty‐two interviews were conducted with foster parents, caseworkers and therapists involved with 14 older children or sibling sets who had undergone placement disruptions and were at high risk of experiencing future disruptions. A theoretical model of parental dispositional traits was developed with the aim of informing efforts to mitigate p…
The Politicization of Fear: Politicized Threats as Sources of Racial and Religious Group Threat
Childhood Predictors of Dispositional Forgivingness in Adulthood: A Cross-National Analysis with 22 Countries
A robust body of empirical evidence suggests that forgiveness of others is positively related to individual wellbeing. However, less empirical work has been done to identify the factors that may help children not only forgive better during childhood but also develop into adults who practice forgiveness more consistently. To support a population health agenda aimed at the promotion of forgiveness, further research is needed to identify potential d…
Measurement and Conceptualization of Christian Nationalism: A Critical Examination and Alternative Approach
In recent years there has been an abundance of research on the role of Christian nationalism in the United States. Critics of this research have argued that typical survey measures in this work do not reflect the concept of Christian nationalism as theorized. In this study, we use exploratory factor analysis to extract a scale from a novel set of survey items from the Neighborly Faith data set intended to measure the concept more directly. We the…
Enemy of My Enemy? An Examination of Potential Religious Group Threat Effects on Racial Attitudes
Group threat theories postulate that when majority group members feel threatened by minority racial groups, they develop prejudice. However, it is possible that feeling threatened by those perceived as outgroups of racial minorities can lead to support for racial minorities. The threat offered by conservative Christians to progressives can lead those progressives to become more supportive of racial minorities, perceiving those minorities as allie…
Finding Antiracists: Construction of an Antiracism Attitude Scale
While there have been many antiracism discussions, an instrument is needed to capture the degree of support of a popularized form of this philosophy. Such an instrument, contextualized to contemporary racial controversies, can be an upgrade from older measures of racial attitudes, such as the racial resentment scale. Furthermore, a scale assessing antiracism differs from previous scales by measuring racial progressiveness or radicalism rather tha…
Explaining Racial Attitudes: Race, Political Identity, Education, and Religious Outgrouping
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 p…
Identity Politics, Political Ideology, and Well‐being: Is Identity Politics Good for Our Well‐being
Research indicates that political progressives have lower levels of mental well‐being than political conservatives. However, while attention has been paid to why conservatives have higher levels of well‐being relatively little attention has been used to examine why progressives may have comparatively low levels of well‐being. Recent events connected to a “Great Awokening” suggest that identity politics may correlate to a decrease in well‐being pa…
Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era, by Daniel R. Bare
Journal Article Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era, by DANIEL R. BARE Get access Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era, by DANIEL R. BARE. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2021, 272 pp.; $89.00 (hardcover), $30.00 (paperback). George Yancey George Yancey Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA Search for other works by this author on: O…
Is Christianity still the dominant religion in the United States
It is reasonable to argue that the institutions in the United States have historically been geared toward benefiting adherents of traditional Christianity. Thus, Christianity is perceived as the dominant religion in the US. While Christians have held a dominant religious position in the past, it is unwise to assume that their level of power in society remains at such high levels. I explore that question by assessing what it means to be a dominant…
Yes Academic Bias is a Problem and We Need to Address it: A Response to Larregue
Has Society Grown More Hostile towards Conservative Christians? Evidence from Anes Surveys
Several conservative Christian activists have complained of increasing hatred directed towards them and a majority of Christians today believe that persecution against them has increased in the United States. To date there has not been an empirical assessment of whether there are increasing levels of anti-Christian animosity with two groups as representative of conservative Christians: Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals. Levels of anti-Ch…
Atheist Awakening: Secular Activism and Community in America
Does Height Matter? An Examination of Height Preferences in Romantic Coupling
Amidst increasingly equality in belief and in practice between the sexes, we ask if height preferences still matter, and if so, why people say they matter. First, we collected data from Yahoo! dating personal advertisements. Second, we used answers to open-ended questions in an online survey. The Yahoo! data document that height is still important in decisions to date but that it is more important to females than to males. Results from the online…
Both/And Instead of Either/Or
How Academics View Conservative Protestants
A sizable body of research has demonstrated an anti-conservative Christian perspective among academics. Our research explores academics' negative attitudes toward conservative Protestants. We asked academics to rate Protestant Christian groups, and then explain their ratings, how they define mainline, evangelicals, and fundamentalist Protestants, and articulate the differences between various Protestant groups. Identifying as conservative Protest…
Watching the Watchers: The Neglect of Academic Analysis of Progressive Groups
There Is No God: Atheists in America
There is No God: Atheists in America answers several questions pertaining to how the atheist population has grown from relatively small numbers to have a disproportionately large impact on important issues of our day, such as the separation of church and state, abortion, gay marriage, and public school curricula. Williamson and Yancey answer the common questions surrounding atheism. Just how common is the dismissal and derision of religion expres…
Recalibrating Academic Bias
Forming a More Perfect Union: Racial Perceptions of Unity and Division in the United States
This research analyzes 105 interviews from the Lilly Survey of Attitudes and Friendship to assess attitudes on bridging U.S. cultural difference. Interviewees across social categories were most likely to identify freedom as the principle that unites Americans and racial issues as that which divides. The data reveal racial variation, however. White participants often talked about unity and division in terms that did not implicate societal transfor…
Interracial Families: Current Concepts and Controversies
A unique book offering both a research overview and practical advice for its readers, this text allows students to gain a solid understanding of the research that has been generated on several important issues surrounding multiracial families, including intimate relations, family dynamics, transracial adoptions, and other topics of personal and scholarly interest
Crossracial Differences in the Racial Preferences of Potential Dating Partners: A Test of the Alienation of African Americans and Social Dominance Orientation
Studying interracial romance has been useful for understanding general race relations. Theories of African American alienation and social dominance orientation help explain why previous research has found African Americans to be the least desired racial dating partners. Alienation predicts that African Americans are less willing to interracially date than other racial groups since they are not allowed to participate in the majority culture. Socia…
Interracial Families: Current Concepts and Controversies
1. Today's White Collar Crime Reading 1-1 Donald DeKieffer, Terrorist Links to Commercial Fraud in the United States Reading 1-2 Brad Heath, Katrina Fraud Swamps System 2. Information Technology and White Collar Crime Reading 2-1 Amber Ennis, A Look at Crime in the Age of Technology Reading 2-2 Peter Carbonara, The Scam That Will Not Die 3. The Corporate-State Corruption Connection - Can it be Stopped? Reading 3-1 Charlie Cray, Disaster Profiteer…
Racial Diversity, Gender Equality, and SES Diversity in Christian Congregations: Exploring the Connections of Racism, Sexism, and Classism in Multiracial and Nonmultiracial Churches
We explore the possibility that racially inclusive churches are also more inclusive in SES and supportive of gender equality. We used the Lilly Survey of Congregations to compare SES diversity and attitudes toward female leadership between multiracial and nonmultiracial churches. Findings indicate that multiracial churches promote SES diversity, but not necessarily gender equality. The relationship is straightforward as it concerns SES diversity,…
Interracial Contact and Social Change
In this thought-provoking analysis, George Yancey reevaluates the controversial "contact hypothesis" as he explores if and when interracial contact can combat the racial animosity and inequality permeating US society. Yancey draws on quantitative and qualitative investigations of interracial religious congregations, families, and friendships to demonstrate that extensive interactions with people of color can alter the racial attitudes of whites. …
Does Race Matter in Residential Segregation? Exploring the Preferences of White Americans
Employing an alternative methodology and new data, the authors address the debate concerning the underlying causes of racial residential segregation. Are white Americans avoiding racially mixed neighborhoods because they do not want to live with nonwhites? And if so, is this the case independent of factors with which race is associated, such as crime levels or housing values? An over-the-telephone factorial experiment addresses these issues, meas…
Contact Theory Extended: The Effects of Prior Racial Contact on Current Social Ties
Objective . We address methodological limitations in tests of contact theory. Just as importantly, we extend its theoretical focus to behaviors. Linking insights from social and cognitive psychology with contact theory, we hypothesize that prior racial contact will have significant effects on the racial diversity of contemporary social ties. Methods . Using the 1999–2000 Lilly Survey of Attitudes and Social Networks, we conduct univariate and mul…
Who Interracially Dates: An Examination of the Characteristics of those who have Interracially Dated
Interracial romantic relationships are a useful barometer of macrolevel race relations. Much of the research of who enters into interracial relationships concentrates upon marital relationships. While this research is useful, there is little research regarding who interracially dates. Logistical regression analysis was conducted on data from a telephone survey. European-Americans, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans were ana…
Crossracial Differences in the Racial Preferences of Potential Dating Partners: A Test of the Alienation of African Americans and Social Dominance Orientation
Studying interracial romance has been useful for understanding general race relations. Theories of African American alienation and social dominance orientation help explain why previous research has found African Americans to be the least desired racial dating partners. Alienation predicts that African Americans are less willing to interracially date than other racial groups since they are not allowed to participate in the majority culture. Socia…
An Examination of the Effects of Residential and Church Integration on Racial Attitudes of Whites
The contact hypothesis suggests that interracial contact promotes harmonious racial relations. Previous tests of this hypothesis are dated and tend to deal with overt old-fashioned racism rather than subtle racism. The contact hypothesis is tested within residential settings and religious institutions. Residential integration does not appear to alter the racial attitudes of white respondents toward African-Americans. Yet after basic demographic c…
Experiencing Racism: Differences in the Experiences of Whites Married to Blacks and Non-Black Racial Minorities
Interracial marriages between blacks and majority group members often face higher social sanctions than other types of interracial marriages. Therefore, majority group members in interracial marriages with a black partner may learn to conceptualize racial issues differently than those without black partners. This paper conducts a preliminary investigation into whether the racial perspectives of white spouses in interracial marriages with blacks a…
Interracial Families: Current Concepts and Controversies
A unique book offering both a research overview and practical advice for its readers, this text allows students to gain a solid understanding of the research that has been generated on several important issues surrounding multiracial families, including intimate relations, family dynamics, transracial adoptions, and other topics of personal and scholarly interest
Homogamy over the net: Using internet advertisements to discover who interracially dates
There is relatively scant research on who interracially dates. The propensity to interracially date may be linked to symbolic racism. It is possible that political conservatives and the highly religious have symbolically racist notions inhibiting their willingness to interracially date. The primary purpose of this research is to discover who is willing to interracially date with an emphasis upon possible religious and political factors. A nationa…
Interracial Dating: Evidence From Personal Advertisements
Caste and exchange theories predict that Whites who enter into interracial relationships seek to trade their racial status for relational capital (i.e., physical attractiveness, financial security). Racial minorities, on the other hand, are likely to trade such assets for higher racial status. However, previous research concerning interracial relationships has concentrated on couples who are already established; thus, the existing literature is o…
Integrated Sundays: An Exploratory Study into the Formation of Multiracial Churches
Americans are less likely to develop primary relationships with members of different races than with members of their own race. Thus, organizations in which Americans develop their primary friendships are highly likely to be racially segregated. In a society in which primary interracial relationships are uncommon, multiracial churches are anomalous organizations. The purpose of this paper is to explore how multiracial churches may form. We utiliz…
Biracial marriages in the United States: An analysis of variation in family member support
This paper focuses on family member support of the decision of respondents to marry biracially. Through the use of assimilation theory and marital assimilation as a subprocess, it was hypothesized that African American spouses in biracial marriages experienced more support and acceptance from family members than White and Mexican American spouses received from theirs. In addition, individuals in Black/White marriages were asserted to have experie…
How Academics View Conservative Protestants
A sizable body of research has demonstrated an anti-conservative Christian perspective among academics. Our research explores academics' negative attitudes toward conservative Protestants. We asked academics to rate Protestant Christian groups, and then explain their ratings, how they define mainline, evangelicals, and fundamentalist Protestants, and articulate the differences between various Protestant groups. Identifying as conservative Protest…
Racial Diversity, Gender Equality, and SES Diversity in Christian Congregations: Exploring the Connections of Racism, Sexism, and Classism in Multiracial and Nonmultiracial Churches
We explore the possibility that racially inclusive churches are also more inclusive in SES and supportive of gender equality. We used the Lilly Survey of Congregations to compare SES diversity and attitudes toward female leadership between multiracial and nonmultiracial churches. Findings indicate that multiracial churches promote SES diversity, but not necessarily gender equality. The relationship is straightforward as it concerns SES diversity,…
Does Height Matter? An Examination of Height Preferences in Romantic Coupling
Amidst increasingly equality in belief and in practice between the sexes, we ask if height preferences still matter, and if so, why people say they matter. First, we collected data from Yahoo! dating personal advertisements. Second, we used answers to open-ended questions in an online survey. The Yahoo! data document that height is still important in decisions to date but that it is more important to females than to males. Results from the online…
A preliminary examination of differential sexual attitudes among individuals involved in interracial relationships: Testing “Jungle Fever”
“Jungle Fever” is a stereotype that individuals who enter interracial relationships out of a desire to experience sex with someone of a different race. This research is an initial attempt to gather empirical evidence that address this stereotype. Analysis of the sexual attitudes of never married/cohabited individuals in the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey find little support for this stereotype. Because this finding only examines atti…
Yes Academic Bias is a Problem and We Need to Address it: A Response to Larregue
Has Society Grown More Hostile towards Conservative Christians? Evidence from Anes Surveys
Several conservative Christian activists have complained of increasing hatred directed towards them and a majority of Christians today believe that persecution against them has increased in the United States. To date there has not been an empirical assessment of whether there are increasing levels of anti-Christian animosity with two groups as representative of conservative Christians: Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals. Levels of anti-Ch…
An examination of the propensity of women and racial minorities to specialize in sex/gender and racial/ethnic relation studies
Both/And Instead of Either/Or
An examination of the propensity of women and racial minorities to specialize in sex/gender and racial/ethnic relation studies
Biracial marriages in the United States: An analysis of variation in family member support
This paper focuses on family member support of the decision of respondents to marry biracially. Through the use of assimilation theory and marital assimilation as a subprocess, it was hypothesized that African American spouses in biracial marriages experienced more support and acceptance from family members than White and Mexican American spouses received from theirs. In addition, individuals in Black/White marriages were asserted to have experie…
Black-White Differences in the Use of Personal Advertisements for Individuals Seeking Interracial Relationships
The study of interracial unions is valuable in understanding the nature of race relationships (Aldridge, 1978). Negative attitudes toward interracial unions from both dominant and subordinate racial group members provide for formidable psychological and emotional barriers to interracial contact, helping to maintain a racially stratified society (Lewis & Yancey, 1994-1995). Stember (1976) has argued that majority group attitudes and beliefs that n…
Racial and Nonracial Factors That Influence Spouse Choice in Black/White Marriages
Biracial marriage has historically been an important barometer of race relations in the United States. Mores prohibiting biracial marriage have existed for every ethnic and racial group that has occupied a subordinate position in American society. This type of marital union has been generally viewed by sociologists as a product involving individuals from dissimilar racial backgrounds, thereby constituting an exogamous relationship (Heer, 1974). N…
Interracial Dating: Evidence From Personal Advertisements
Caste and exchange theories predict that Whites who enter into interracial relationships seek to trade their racial status for relational capital (i.e., physical attractiveness, financial security). Racial minorities, on the other hand, are likely to trade such assets for higher racial status. However, previous research concerning interracial relationships has concentrated on couples who are already established; thus, the existing literature is o…
An Examination of the Effects of Residential and Church Integration on Racial Attitudes of Whites
The contact hypothesis suggests that interracial contact promotes harmonious racial relations. Previous tests of this hypothesis are dated and tend to deal with overt old-fashioned racism rather than subtle racism. The contact hypothesis is tested within residential settings and religious institutions. Residential integration does not appear to alter the racial attitudes of white respondents toward African-Americans. Yet after basic demographic c…
An Analysis of Resistance to Racial Exogamy: The 1998 South Carolina Referendum
An Analysis of Resistance to Racial Exogamy: The 1998 South Carolina Referendum
Support for biracial unions is a significant barometer of American race relations (Aldridge, 1978; Gordon, 1964; Porterfield, 1978). It is also useful for assessing the social acceptance of racial minority groups (Lewis, Yancey, & Bletzer 1997; Yancey & Yancey, 1998). Historically, opposition to interracial unions, especially those consisting of Blacks and Whites, was an important source for legitimizing racial segregation (Myrdal, 1964; Spickard…
Does Race Matter in Residential Segregation? Exploring the Preferences of White Americans
Employing an alternative methodology and new data, the authors address the debate concerning the underlying causes of racial residential segregation. Are white Americans avoiding racially mixed neighborhoods because they do not want to live with nonwhites? And if so, is this the case independent of factors with which race is associated, such as crime levels or housing values? An over-the-telephone factorial experiment addresses these issues, meas…
Contact Theory Extended: The Effects of Prior Racial Contact on Current Social Ties
Objective . We address methodological limitations in tests of contact theory. Just as importantly, we extend its theoretical focus to behaviors. Linking insights from social and cognitive psychology with contact theory, we hypothesize that prior racial contact will have significant effects on the racial diversity of contemporary social ties. Methods . Using the 1999–2000 Lilly Survey of Attitudes and Social Networks, we conduct univariate and mul…
Who Interracially Dates: An Examination of the Characteristics of those who have Interracially Dated
Interracial romantic relationships are a useful barometer of macrolevel race relations. Much of the research of who enters into interracial relationships concentrates upon marital relationships. While this research is useful, there is little research regarding who interracially dates. Logistical regression analysis was conducted on data from a telephone survey. European-Americans, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans were ana…
United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race
In the last four decades, desegregation has revolutionized almost every aspect of life in the United States: schools, businesses, government offices, even entertainment. But there is one area that remains largely untouched, and that is the church. Now comes a major new call for multiracial congregations in every possible setting—a call that is surprisingly controversial, even in the 21st century. This book looks at relationships between the races…
Who Is White: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide
A preliminary examination of differential sexual attitudes among individuals involved in interracial relationships: Testing “Jungle Fever”
“Jungle Fever” is a stereotype that individuals who enter interracial relationships out of a desire to experience sex with someone of a different race. This research is an initial attempt to gather empirical evidence that address this stereotype. Analysis of the sexual attitudes of never married/cohabited individuals in the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey find little support for this stereotype. Because this finding only examines atti…
Integrated Sundays: An Exploratory Study into the Formation of Multiracial Churches
Americans are less likely to develop primary relationships with members of different races than with members of their own race. Thus, organizations in which Americans develop their primary friendships are highly likely to be racially segregated. In a society in which primary interracial relationships are uncommon, multiracial churches are anomalous organizations. The purpose of this paper is to explore how multiracial churches may form. We utiliz…
Who Is White: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide
Racial Justice in a Black/Nonblack Society
Interracial Contact and Social Change
In this thought-provoking analysis, George Yancey reevaluates the controversial "contact hypothesis" as he explores if and when interracial contact can combat the racial animosity and inequality permeating US society. Yancey draws on quantitative and qualitative investigations of interracial religious congregations, families, and friendships to demonstrate that extensive interactions with people of color can alter the racial attitudes of whites. …
Homogamy over the net: Using internet advertisements to discover who interracially dates
There is relatively scant research on who interracially dates. The propensity to interracially date may be linked to symbolic racism. It is possible that political conservatives and the highly religious have symbolically racist notions inhibiting their willingness to interracially date. The primary purpose of this research is to discover who is willing to interracially date with an emphasis upon possible religious and political factors. A nationa…
Experiencing Racism: Differences in the Experiences of Whites Married to Blacks and Non-Black Racial Minorities
Interracial marriages between blacks and majority group members often face higher social sanctions than other types of interracial marriages. Therefore, majority group members in interracial marriages with a black partner may learn to conceptualize racial issues differently than those without black partners. This paper conducts a preliminary investigation into whether the racial perspectives of white spouses in interracial marriages with blacks a…
Interracial Families: Current Concepts and Controversies
1. Today's White Collar Crime Reading 1-1 Donald DeKieffer, Terrorist Links to Commercial Fraud in the United States Reading 1-2 Brad Heath, Katrina Fraud Swamps System 2. Information Technology and White Collar Crime Reading 2-1 Amber Ennis, A Look at Crime in the Age of Technology Reading 2-2 Peter Carbonara, The Scam That Will Not Die 3. The Corporate-State Corruption Connection - Can it be Stopped? Reading 3-1 Charlie Cray, Disaster Profiteer…
Racial Diversity, Gender Equality, and SES Diversity in Christian Congregations: Exploring the Connections of Racism, Sexism, and Classism in Multiracial and Nonmultiracial Churches
We explore the possibility that racially inclusive churches are also more inclusive in SES and supportive of gender equality. We used the Lilly Survey of Congregations to compare SES diversity and attitudes toward female leadership between multiracial and nonmultiracial churches. Findings indicate that multiracial churches promote SES diversity, but not necessarily gender equality. The relationship is straightforward as it concerns SES diversity,…
Forming a More Perfect Union: Racial Perceptions of Unity and Division in the United States
This research analyzes 105 interviews from the Lilly Survey of Attitudes and Friendship to assess attitudes on bridging U.S. cultural difference. Interviewees across social categories were most likely to identify freedom as the principle that unites Americans and racial issues as that which divides. The data reveal racial variation, however. White participants often talked about unity and division in terms that did not implicate societal transfor…
Interracial Families: Current Concepts and Controversies
A unique book offering both a research overview and practical advice for its readers, this text allows students to gain a solid understanding of the research that has been generated on several important issues surrounding multiracial families, including intimate relations, family dynamics, transracial adoptions, and other topics of personal and scholarly interest
Crossracial Differences in the Racial Preferences of Potential Dating Partners: A Test of the Alienation of African Americans and Social Dominance Orientation
Studying interracial romance has been useful for understanding general race relations. Theories of African American alienation and social dominance orientation help explain why previous research has found African Americans to be the least desired racial dating partners. Alienation predicts that African Americans are less willing to interracially date than other racial groups since they are not allowed to participate in the majority culture. Socia…
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