Defining racism safely: The role of self-image maintenance on white Americans’ conceptions of racism

By Miguel M. Unzueta, Brian S. Lowery. 2008

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• “But I’m oppressed too”: white male college students framing racial emotions as facts and recreating racism (2014, background): “For example, Unzueta and Lowery (2008) demonstrated that White Americans are more likely to define racism as minority disadvantage instead of White privilege because this allows them to maintain a non-racist sense of self.”
• Group‐based Differences in Perceptions of Racism: What Counts, to Whom, and Why? (2015, background): “Two studies explored how affirming one’s self-image increasesWhites’ acknowledgement of structural racism (Unzueta & Lowery, 2008).”