Perceptions of Racialized Opportunities and Hispanics' Political Attitudes

Predicting Support for School Vouchers and Government Intervention in Health Care

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ID3758495
AuthorsFrank L Samson (0000-0001-9380-0362, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume56
Issue11
Pages1525-1564
Publication date2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764212458278
OpenAlexW2150769328
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited63

In an attempt to understand Hispanics' political incorporation as the United States becomes a "majority-minority" nation, I explore some of the social-psychological processes that shape Hispanics' political attitudes. Specifically, I draw on the segmented-assimilation literature's notion of "modes of incorporation" to argue that immigrants develop perceptions of racialized opportunities (PROPs) as they confront America's segmented opportunity structure. Because of the durability of these racialized mobility trajectories, I propose that PROPs play an important part in the formation of Hispanics' political attitudes. I test the PROPs mechanism using the 2006 Latino National Survey with a sample of 8,634 Hispanic respondents. Ordinal logistic regression models, estimating Hispanics' support for school vouchers and government intervention in health care, indicate that PROPs are related to Hispanics' political attitudes, especially in regard to support for school vouchers. Moreover, this social-psychological mechanism informs the political attitudes of both U.S.-born and foreign-born Hispanics

Economics · Immigration · Perception · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Voucher · Medicine · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Gerontology

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