Prejudice and pandemic in the promised land
How white Christian nationalism shapes Americans’ racist and xenophobic views of Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18977191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Perry (0000-0002-6398-636X, University of Oklahoma, corresponding author), Andrew L Whitehead (0000-0001-6587-0996, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis), Joshua B Grubbs (0000-0002-2642-1351, Bowling Green State University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 759-772 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2020.1839114 |
| OpenAlex | W3108733102 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 11 |
During the COVID-19 crisis in March/April of 2020, far-right American political leaders and pundits proffered xenophobic explanations for the pandemic while ignoring that poorer, Black Americans and prison populations were being disproportionately infected. We propose such xenophobic and racist evaluations of COVID-19 drew from and appealed to a pervasive and politically strategic ethnoreligious ideology—white Christian nationalism. Panel data fielded before and during the COVID-19 crisis show that Christian nationalism was invariably the strongest predictor that Americans felt it was not racist to call COVID-19 "the Chinese virus", blamed minorities for their own disproportionate infection rate, favoured immigration restrictions to solve the pandemic, and minimized or justified the infections of prison inmates. Racial identity also moderated Christian nationalism's effect such that it was typically a more powerful influence among whites compared to Blacks. Findings affirm that racist and xenophobic views promulgated during the COVID-19 crisis were undergirded by white Christian nationalism
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Criminology · Ideology · Immigration · Nationalism · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term) · Prison · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation) · Xenophobia · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |