Over Thirty Years Later: A Contemporary Look at Symbolic Racism * * Previous versions of this chapte

By D. O. Sears, P. Henry. 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Implicit Race Attitudes Predicted Vote in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election (2009, methodology): “…findings to shed light on two theoretical controversies, one concerning construct validity of attitude measures using the IAT method (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998), and the other concerning the contribution of race attitudes to the construct of symbolic racism (see Sears & Henry, 2005).”
Aversive Racism and Contemporary Bias (2016, background): “Symbolic racism theory (Sears & Henry, 2005) developed in response to a practical problem: the failure of traditional self-report measures to predict people’s responses to racially targeted policies and Black political candidates.”
Education not Incarceration: A Conceptual Model for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality in School Discipline (2014, background): “438 and the belief that members of some ethnic or racial groups tend to reject these values.(32) Even after controlling for alternative predictors such as political ideology, age, sex, and income, individuals reporting these beliefs tend to object to social policies that more commonly support Africa”
Host society's dislike of the Islamic veil: The role of subtle prejudice, values, and religion. (2009, background): “…theoretical and empirical evidence that subtle prejudice/racism (Pettigrew & Meertens, 1995), modern racism (McConahay, 1986), and symbolic racism (Sears & Henry, 2005), constructs, which have much in common yet, remain distinct, are new and socially acceptable forms of old-fashioned blatant…”
Social psychological perspectives on the legitimation of social inequality: Past, present and future (2013, unknown): “…negative racial affect picked up in childhood with individualistic, politically conservative opinions and values— permits opposition to a range of policies that are designed to promote the general welfare and advancement of members of disadvantaged groups (Henry & Sears, 2002; Sears & Henry, 2005).”
Race, race-based discrimination, and health outcomes among African Americans. (2007, background): “Much of America’s ability to dialogue dispassionately about race had its birth in the early research done by social psychologists on racial attitudes and symbolic racism (Bobo 1983; Bobo & Fox 2003; Sears 1998; Sears & Henry 2003, 2005).”
On Assessing the Political Effects of Racial Prejudice (2009, background): “…demands and resentment at their special treatment racism,”1 in which a subtler racial prejudice is conveyed through white opposition to black demands and resentment of their special treatment (Bobo et al. 1997, Henry & Sears 2002, Kinder & Sanders 1996, McConahay & Hough 1976, Sears & Henry 2005).”