Construction and Initial Validation of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS)

By Helen A. Neville, Roderick L. Lilly, Georgia Duran, Richard M. Lee, LaVonne Browne. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Do Color Blindness and Multiculturalism Remedy or Foster Discrimination and Racism? (2018, background): “The literature suggests that people high in color blindness not only are less sensitive to racism but also may be less attuned to minorities’ unique realities (Neville et al., 2000).”
• The role of color-blind racial attitudes in reactions to racial discrimination on social network sites. (2010, methodology): “gested, completing a year-long diversity training intervention can be effective at reducing color-blind racial attitudes (Neville et al., 2000).”
• Racial microaggressions in everyday life: implications for clinical practice. (2007, neutral): “Moreover these statements presume that the therapist is capable of not seeing race and impose a definition of racial reality on the client (Neville et al., 2000).”
• Changing Perspective: How Learning about Racism Influences Student Awareness and Emotion (2007, methodology): “In addition, although Neville et al. (2000) showed some significant sex differences for the CoBRAS scales, our analyses showed no significant effects or interactions.”
• A Preliminary Report on the Relationship Between Microaggressions Against Black People and Racism Among White College Students (2017, methodology): “Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS; Neville et al. 2000) is a 20-item measure of participants’ beliefs that racial dynamics are not important and that institutional and other forms of racism do not exist.”
• The Multicultural Teaching Competency Scale: Development and Initial Validation (2011, background): “Neville et al. (2000) indicated adequate internal consistency (α = .86) and construct validity.”
• Skin-Color Prejudice and Within-Group Racial Discrimination (2014, background): “…modern racism in the 1980s (McConahay, 1983, 1986), new racism in the 1990s (Bonilla-Silva, 2010; Cones & White, 1999), Racism 2.0 (Wise, 2008), color-blind racial attitudes (CoBRA), and color-blind racial ideology (CoBRI) at the turn of the century (Neville, Lilly, Duran, Lee, & Browne, 2000).”
• Diversity climate impact on employee of color outcomes: does justice matter? (2010, methodology): “For this study the Awareness of Racial Privilege subscale (denoted Racial Awareness and abbreviated as RA), the most appropriate to measure participant's awareness of racial prejudice (Neville et al., 2000) was used (coefficient α=0.83).”
• Attitudes toward affirmative action: A comparison of color-blind versus modern racist attitudes (2005, background): “61), demonstrating convergent validity (Neville et al., 2000).”