Meritocracy, Self-Concerns, and Whites' Denial of Racial Inequity

By Eric D. Knowles, Brian S. Lowery. 2012

112 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. L. T. Phillips
2. Brian S. Lowery

In Social Psychology

1. L. T. Phillips
2. Brian S. Lowery

In Sociology and Political Science

1. L. T. Phillips
2. Brian S. Lowery

Citations in the corpus

• The hard-knock life? Whites claim hardships in response to racial inequity. (2015, background): “This may serve to bolster their sense of legitimacy and reduce the negative attributional implications of privilege (e.g., Feather, 1992; Knowles & Lowery, 2012).”
• Herd Invisibility: The Psychology of Racial Privilege (2018, background): “For example, this work does not find that social dominance orientation nor political ideology moderates Whites’ hardship claims, although concern for personal merit does (Knowles & Lowery, 2012; Phillips & Lowery, 2015, 2018).”