Race in the American Mind
From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9775720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence D Bobo (0000-0002-4280-0538, Social Sciences at Harvard University, corresponding author), Camille Zubrinsky Charles (0000-0002-2182-4928, Africa Center) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 621 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 243-259 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716208324759 |
| OpenAlex | W2078342712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 85 |
| References cited | 41 |
In 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed that the “racist virus in the American blood stream still afflicts us.” The authors assess the tenor of racial attitudes in white and black America across the ensuing four decades. Their core conclusion is paradoxical. On one hand, a massive positive change in social norms regarding race has taken place that dislodged Jim Crow ideology and now calls for integration and equality as the rules that should guide black-white interaction. On the other hand, negative stereotypes of African Americans, cultural (not structural or discrimination-based) accounts of black disadvantage, and deep polarization over the appropriate social policy response to racial inequality yield an ongoing legacy of tension and division. The authors link these trends in attitudes to broader changes in society (i.e., racial segregation, job discrimination, rates of intermarriage), patterns of intergroup and interpersonal behavior, and national political dynamics
Candidacy · Disadvantage · Ideology · Interpersonal communication · Polarization (electrochemistry · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racial formation theory · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Sociology of Race, Racism and Ethnicity
Social Constructions of the Nonprejudiced White Self
“We Haven’t Come Very Far
Learning Race to Unlearn Racism
“Hello group, I need advice”
Taste-Based Statistical Discrimination
“Cultural Racism”
The Popular Basis of the State’s Monopoly on Legitimate Violence
Boundary processes
When bias binds
The Lived Experience of Teaching About Race in Cultural Nursing Education
Multi-Scale Residential Segregation
The Relationship Between Racial Identity and Perceived Significance of the Election of President Barack Obama Among African American Mothers
Reflections on Race, Diversity, and the Crossroads of Multiculturalism
Intersecting Boundaries
Antiracism Limited
Barack Obama and the Politics of Race
Reassessing Trends in Black Violent Crime, 1980-2008
The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action
Untangling the gender gap in symbolic racist attitudes among white Americans
Cultural attributions for racial inequality
(De)constructing Nascar Space”
Hegemonic whiteness
Dual Consciousness, Social Mobility, and the Experiences of Middle-Income African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Examining the Nuance in Public Opinion of Pro-LGB Policies in a “Red State”
Race, Law, and Inequality, 50 Years After the Civil Rights Era
Sorry It Took a Pandemic and Multiple Murders to Get Here”
Research concerns, cautions and considerations on Black males in a ‘post‐racial’ society
Learning to make racism funny in the ‘color-blind’ era
Untangling Pathology
Barack Obama as the Great Man
Neighborhood racial–ethnic change and home value appreciation
Redefining Racial Categories
Interrogating Whiteness in Community Research and Action
Disrupting White racial dominance
Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future
People, Race and Place
Race, Racial Resentment, Attentiveness to the News Media, and Public Opinion Toward the Jena Six
At a Loss for Words
Interethnic Marriage in the United States
Th Annual Aera Brown Lecture in Education Research “A Shade Less Offensive”
A lesson in bias
Talking Emotional Safety
Constructing racial difference through group talk
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things
Racialized Conflict and Policy Spillover Effects
The Social Construction of a Gentrifying Neighborhood
Multivalent Recognition
Americanness Hierarchies
Rewiring Linked Fate
The Meaning of 'Racism
Logics of Redistribution
The impact of local black residents' socioeconomic status on white residents' racial views
Police Warriors and Police Guardians
Talking Race, Marketing Culture
Environmental Inequality in the American Mind
Race-Ethnicity and Health Trajectories
The Fragility of Racial Transcendence
White Concern About Black Favoritism in a Biracial Presidential Election
Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans' Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism
Revisiting the Weberian Presumption
Principle-Policy and Principle-Personal Gaps in Americans' Diversity Attitudes
The Sweet Enchantment of Color-Blind Racism in Obamerica
Neutralité raciale et diversité
Changes in Americans' prejudices during the presidency of Donald Trump
The Structural Origins of Territorial Stigma
A Theory of African American Offending
Interethnic Romantic Relationships
Critical Race Theories, Colorism, and the Decade's Research on Families of Color
Affiliative ethnic identity
American federalism and racial formation in contemporary immigration policy
Colour-blindness and diversity
Off white
Mechanisms of exclusion
Stop 'blaming the man
Generational Changes in Racial Inequality in Occupational Attainment, 1950-2010
The Uncertain Impact of Anglo/Latino Contact on Anglos' Immigration Policy Views
Making a Civil Rights Claim for Affirmative Action
Racism, Moralism, and Social Criticism1
Segregation in Post-Civil Rights America
What We Face
A Change Has Come
Genes, Race, and Causation
Diverging Fortunes
Intragroup Heterogeneity and Blackness
American apartheid
Closed doors, opportunities lost
Stories Employers Tell
The Velvet Glove
Laissez-Faire Racism
Racial attitudes in America
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
The Race Card
Racial Discrimination in Housing Markets during the 1980s
Black Racial Attitudes
Journal of Urban Economics 62 (1) (2007)
Hypersegregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Whites who say they’d flee
The Neighbourhood Contact Hypothesis
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
Is It Really Racism
Military Triumph, Racial Transcendence, and Colin Powell
Trends
Race, Immigration, and the Identity-to-Politics Link
The Centrality of Race in American Politics
Perceptions of Racial Group Competition
Trends in Whites' Explanations of the Black-White Gap in Socioeconomic Status, 1977-1989
Whites' Beliefs about Blacks' Opportunity
African American, Hispanic, and White Beliefs about Black/White Inequality, 1977-2004
Does Race Matter in Residential Segregation? Exploring the Preferences of White Americans
Opposition to Race-Targeting
Walking the Talk? What Employers Say Versus What They Do
Cues that Matter
Perceiving the Metropolis
Does Socioeconomic Status Matter? Race, Class, and Residential Segregation
New Approaches to Understanding Racial Prejudice and Discrimination
The Dynamics of Racial Residential Segregation
The Changing Color of Welfare? How Whites' Attitudes toward Latinos Influence Support for Welfare
The Mark of a Criminal Record
A Taste for Punishment
Prismatic Metropolis
| Unique citing works | 85 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,47 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 85 |