The “Race Card” Revisited
Assessing Racial Priming in Policy Contests
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6231081 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory A Huber (0000-0001-6804-8148, Yale University), John S Lapinski (0000-0002-9328-8984, Yale University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 421-440 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2006.00192.x |
| OpenAlex | W2011604614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 83 |
| References cited | 22 |
In The Race Card (2001), Mendelberg finds support for her theory that implicit racial appeals, but not explicit ones, prime racial resentment in opinion formation. She argues that citizens reject explicit appeals, rendering them ineffective, because they violate widespread egalitarian norms. Mendelberg's innovative research, however, suffers from several limitations. We remedy these deficiencies using two randomized experiments with over 6,300 respondents. We confirm that individuals do tend to reject explicit appeals outright, but find that implicit appeals are no more effective than explicit ones in priming racial resentment in opinion formation. In accounting for the differences between previous research and our own, we show that education moderates both the accessibility of racial predispositions and message acceptance. This suggests that the necessary assumptions of Mendelberg's theory hold only for different and exclusive subsets of the general population
Implicit attitude · Political science · Politics · Population · Priming (agriculture · Race (biology · Resentment · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 81 |