Racial Contexts' Enduring Influence on Attitudes Toward Poverty

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ID10764476
AuthorsD J Hopkins (0000-0002-9085-6050, Harvard University Press, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume90
Issue3
Pages770-776
Publication date2009-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-4941 • E-ISSN: 1540-6237
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1540-6237.2009.00643.x
OpenAlexW2019695712
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

Objective. This article's objective is to reply to Rodgers (2009) and to expand on the claim that living near poor African Americans influences Americans' views of poverty. Methods. It first presents additional analyses of the 2001 Poverty in America Survey demonstrating that respondents' racial contexts are consistent predictors of attitudes toward poverty. Other contextual variables are not. Results. The article then presents results from an exogenous shock—the post‐Katrina migration—to reinforce its claims. Despite the widespread understanding that the evacuees were not to blame for their situation, their arrival in Houston and Baton Rouge led to more individualistic explanations of poverty. Conclusion. This article concludes that even in unlikely cases, racial contexts influence attitudes toward poverty

Blame · Criminology · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Individualism · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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