Generations and the Expression of Symbolic Racism

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ID6338363
AuthorsDana Ward (corresponding author)
Year1985
Volume6
Issue1
Pages1
Publication date1985-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3791267
OpenAlexW2335755893
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited3

beliefs. The study is based on in-depth interviews with the adult children of the men first interviewed by Robert E. Lane for Political Ideology (1962). While little evidence pointed to the direct imprinting of specific racial beliefs on the cognitive level, there did seem to be a transfer of underlying attitudes on the affective level. The children with fathers who opposed miscegenation tended to be the people who opposed quotas, affirmative action, and bussing. It is argued that the familial atmosphere produced a reservoir of racism beneath the surface of otherwise tolerant beliefs. The fathers' opposition to miscegenation may have established a negative affective evalution of blacks within the second generation which remained even after schools, peers, the media and other socializing agents fundamentally transformed the cognitive constructions through which opinions about race relations were expressed. Issues laden with racial symbolism would then activate the negative affect, producing opposition to policies designed to achieve equality between races

Criminology · Expression (computer science · Programming language · Psychoanalysis · Racism · Sociology · The Symbolic · Computer Science · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology

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