No Longer “All-American”? Whites’ Defensive Reactions to Their Numerical Decline

By Felix Danbold, Yuen J. Huo. 2015

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The “Great Replacement” conspiracy: How the perceived ousting of Whites can evoke violent extremism and Islamophobia (2021, background): “This is in line with newer findings illustrating that dominant groups (e.g., White men) become less tolerant (Danbold & Huo, 2015) and express higher degrees of anger and fear of racial minorities when they are exposed to demographic projections suggesting that they will become a numerical minority…”
The threat of increasing diversity: Why many White Americans support Trump in the 2016 presidential election (2018, background): “…groups (Outten, Schmitt, Miller, & Garcia, 2012), greater implicit and explicit bias against racial/ ethnic minorities (Craig & Richeson, 2014a), decreased endorsement of diversity (Outten et al., 2012), and increased concern with their own group’s position in society (Danbold & Huo, 2014).”
The Pitfalls and Promise of Increasing Racial Diversity: Threat, Contact, and Race Relations in the 21st Century (2018, background): “Studies have confirmed the mediating role of concerns regarding Whites’ status in society (in terms of resources as well as their status as “prototypi-cal” Americans) in engendering these outcomes (e.g., Craig & Richeson 2014b; Danbold & Huo, 2015).”
Herd Invisibility: The Psychology of Racial Privilege (2018, background): “…this possibility, Whites’ support for equity-restoring policies depends on whether they believe their privileged status is legitimate or secure (Chow, Lowery, & Hogan, 2013; Craig & Richeson, 2014; Danbold & Huo, 2015; Jun et al., 2017; Leach et al., 2002; Lowery, Chow, Knowles, & Unzueta, 2012).”
Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote (2018, background): “Simply reminding whites about their impending loss of majority status produces feelings of threat in experimental studies (39), particularly among those who think of the “American way of life” as being white (40).”
Members of high-status groups are threatened by pro-diversity organizational messages (2016, background): “…diversity, whites show greater fear and anger toward minority groups (Outten, Schmitt, Miller, & Garcia, 2012), greater implicit and explicit bias against racial and ethnicminorities (Craig & Richeson, 2014), and increased concernwith their group's position in society (Danbold & Huo, 2014).”