Perceived Discrimination and Interracial Contact: Predicting Interracial Closeness among Black and White Americans

By Linda R. Tropp. 2007

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The Single Factor Fallacy: Implications of Missing Critical Variables from an Analysis of Intergroup Contact Theory1 (2017, background): “(3) Minorities suffer more discrimination at the hands of the majority than vice versa, and Tropp (2007) found that intergroup contact is less effective among minority group members who have experienced discrimination.”
“Let Them Eat Harmony” (2010, background): “, cross-group friendship) can yield positive attitude change for Black Americans and render perceptions of racial discrimination less important in predicting their racial attitudes toward Whites (Tropp, 2007).”
Perspective taking combats the denial of intergroup discrimination (2012, background): “Given that racial and ethnic minorities tend to perceive more discrimination against their groups than do majority groups (Tropp, 2007) and that adopting an outgroup member's perspective causes people to see the world through the psychological lens commonly associated with that group (Galinsky et al”
A paradox of integration? Interracial contact, prejudice reduction and perceptions of racial discrimination (2010, background): “After all, as Wright and Lubensky (2008) note, both the readiness to recognize injustice and the motivation to do something about it require that the disadvantaged view the advantaged in a somewhat negative light – that is, as oppressors who have exploited others or at least been the complicit benef”
Consequences of Diversity for Social Cohesion and Prejudice: The Missing Dimension of Intergroup Contact (2015, background): “One of these was identified by Tropp (2007), who found that when minority members perceive discrimination against their racial group contact is no longer effective.”
Reducing intergroup bias through intergroup contact: Twenty years of progress and future directions (2017, background): “Relative to members of the majority, minoritygroup members tend to perceive that they have experienced more discrimination in the past (Tropp, 2007) and anticipate greater prejudice and discrimination on the basis of their group membership (Tropp & Pettigrew, 2005), which can attenuate the impact…”
Longitudinal effects of contact on intergroup relations: The role of majority and minority group membership and intergroup emotions (2010, background): “This attention to features defining the respective group memberships by minority group members may then negatively affect the contact experiences (Shelton & Richeson, 2006; Shelton, Richeson, & Salvatore, 2005) and weaken the potential for intergroup contact to diminish prejudice (Tropp, 2007).”