Generational Persistence in the Nature of White Racial Attitudes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6372124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew M Engelhardt (0000-0003-2516-3394) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 887-899 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Opinion Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-362X • E-ISSN: 1537-5331 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/poq/nfab041 |
| OpenAlex | W3207285170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
Race and racial attitudes are central to American politics. To understand these relationships, scholars often use measures developed in earlier social and political contexts. A key issue is thus whether such measures consistently capture the same construct across varied contexts. Changes in the social and political context may result in generational differences in how people interpret certain racial attitude items given different socialization experiences. Such differences make generational comparisons on these items invalid because the items capture different considerations. I build on recent work investigating this possibility and test the racial resentment measure’s equivalence between Millennial and older Whites. Despite potential generational differences, I find that the racial resentment measure operates equivalently across generations using two different analytical approaches (retrospective thought-listing and multi-group confirmatory factor analysis). The racial resentment measure offers valid insights into racial attitudes across generational cohorts. I conclude by discussing what this finding implies for emerging work on the manifestations of prejudiced attitudes among Millennial Whites and also suggest potential points of improvement for the measure
Confirmatory factor analysis · Construct (python library · Context (archaeology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Resentment · Socialization · Sociology · Structural equation modeling · White (mutation · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Gender Studies · Social Psychology
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Racial Stasis
Identity Crisis
Post-Racial or Most-Racial
Trumped by Race
When Does Measurement Invariance Matter
Uncovering Reactions to the Racial Resentment Scale across the Racial Divide
Racial Sympathy and Its Political Consequences
The Conceptualization and Measurement of Symbolic Racism
Anes Scales Often Do Not Measure What You Think They Measure
Rethinking Symbolic Racism
Past Place, Present Prejudice
Less Is More
The Rise of Trump, The Fall of Prejudice? Tracking White Americans’ Racial Attitudes Via A Panel Survey, 2008–2018
A Matter of Principle? On the Relationship Between Racial Resentment and Ideology
Authoritarianism in Black and White
Working Twice as Hard to Get Half as Far
Racial Resentment and White Opposition to Race‐Conscious Programs
Racial Attitudes Through a Partisan Lens
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |