Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01902725231191643
Corey D. Fields, V. Keith, Justine E. Tinkler
When we embarked on editing a special issue of Social Psychology Quarterly focused on race, we came to the project with a heady mix of excitement and curiosity, along with a dash of anxiety. We were excited at the prospect of seeing— and helping to shape—how research in sociological social psychology was tackling this important topic. We were curious to see how the field had developed in this area since the groundbreaking special edition of SPQ 20 years ago. And, honestly, we were a little anxious that perhaps there had not been much growth or development in how social psychologists were asking and answering questions about race, racism, and discrimination. Looking back, our excitement and curiosity proved warranted, and our anxieties were misdirected. The call for papers yielded a robust and vibrant body of research being carried out by scholars from a diverse range of career stages, institutions, backgrounds, and methodological orientations. Sociologists are producing a rich body of social psychological research grappling with questions of racial formation, racial discrimination, and race relations more broadly. Going into this process, we shared similar goals to our predecessor from 2003. We also wanted to select papers that bridged various subfields and drew from a broad range of methodological approaches. We hoped that the volume would attend to a wide range of experiences across different racial groups. And it was critical that papers did not all come from a White, ‘‘normative’’ frame of reference. These initial goals were easily met. The pool of submissions for this issue illustrated just how deeply the lessons of the 2003 special issue have shaped our subfield and structured the trajectory of social psychological research. We expanded our goals to include work that uses the topic of race to reconceptualize social psychological ideas. We also selected pieces that use social psychological theories and methods to broaden our
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Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01902725231177643
Jienian Zhang
This article demonstrates how a group of Latinx students in a suburban high school use humor as an interactional strategy to negotiate and sometimes resist perceived racial meanings. Using ethnography, I find two distinct types of ambiguity central in such humor: (1) ambiguity in humor and (2) ambiguity in situational cues that prompt humor. The students interpret these often-ambiguous situational cues as relevant to racism and then use humor to play with assumed racism. Furthermore, they use humor in several distinct but not mutually exclusive forms: (1) preemptive testing, (2) constructing insider/outsider status, and (3) self-(re)defining. By integrating role theories in the analysis, I show the theoretical importance of analyzing both the social cues that prompt the humor and the humor itself. I suggest that such humorous interactions ultimately illuminate racial inequalities that usually remain undetected in interactions or in broader social contexts.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01902725221114141
O. Okuwobi, Bradley Montgomery, David Melamed
Double consciousness arises from a conflict between the negative appraisals of others and one’s own positive self-appraisal. In this study, we link double consciousness with racialized status beliefs, or beliefs about the competency and worth of group members. Using first-order and generalized second-order evaluations of explicit status beliefs, we examine the consistency between how individuals view their own racial group and how they perceive their group to be viewed by others. Drawing on survey data, we find high agreement in generalized second-order status beliefs among racial groups but misalignment between these evaluations and first-order status beliefs for marginalized groups. Black and Hispanic respondents exhibit double consciousness by rating their racial group as higher status than they understand most people to rate their group. The widespread existence of double consciousness in status beliefs has troubling implications for the development of racial identity among people of color and for equity.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01902725231177646
Jennifer A. Jones, R. Frank
Since the 1990s, scholars have speculated on the role of multiracials in shaping race relations in the twenty-first century. Drawing from a purposive sample of roughly 600 self-identified multiracials of partial white origin, we examine race making among multiracials through what we are calling self-concept, a conceptualization that runs along two dimensions—identity and closeness—by which we assess the extent to which multiracials align more closely with a white self-concept, more closely with a minority self-concept, or equally. We find that while there is variation, multiracials of partial white ancestry are more likely to express a self-concept that is more aligned with minorities than with whites. Moreover, we find that despite what the literature suggests, variation in self-concept is less associated with ascription than with social/familial context and racial attitudes. These findings suggest that while ascription matters, racial self-concept is primarily shaped through experience.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01902725231159346
John N. Robinson, Elizabeth Korver‐Glenn, Max Besbris
In this research note, we describe how theories of racial capitalism offer important insights into social psychological processes of racial discrimination, stereotyping, and more. First, the racial capitalism framework sheds light on the material conditions that shape social psychological aspects of racial domination and oppression, including processes of identity formation. Second, racial capitalism thinkers have emphasized how capitalism instrumentalizes racial identity and differentiation to spur accumulation. Third, racial capitalism points to intersectionality as key to understanding how social-structural factors shape the social psychological experiences and effects of discrimination for the racially disadvantaged. Social psychologists should incorporate these insights into their examinations of race and racism.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01902725231177644
Jayanti Owens
Building on social psychological research on individual bias, this article uses the concept of “perceived blameworthiness” to investigate whether Black and Latino boys are perceived by teachers as being more culpable, or “blameworthy,” than White boys for objectively identical, routine classroom misbehavior at school. To isolate teacher bias from true differences in behavior, I use an original video experiment involving 1,339 teachers in 295 U.S. schools. Teachers in the experiment are randomly assigned to view and respond to a video of a White, Black, or Latino boy committing identical misbehavior. I find that Black boys experience teacher blaming bias, where they are perceived as being more “blameworthy” than White boys for identical misbehavior. Results for Latino boys are directionally similar to those for Black boys but do not reach statistical significance. Findings have implications for racialized assessments of behavior across a range of evaluative contexts.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01902725231177637
Evan Stewart, D. Beckman
Is racial animus sensitive to social shocks, or is it a disposition that resists change? The early COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by incidents of prejudice and discrimination against the Asian American community in the United States. We investigate whether comparable shifts in public opinion also occurred during this time using survey data fielded through 2019 and 2020. We compare changes in anti-Asian sentiment to changes in anti-Black, anti-Latino, and anti-white sentiment, finding a distinct rise in anti-Asian sentiment starting in January 2020 that slowly returns to 2019 levels. We also compare neutral response options to both positive and negative responses and find polarization in sentiment where partisanship, political interest, and self-reported COVID-19 exposure all associate with a higher likelihood of expressing both positive and negative sentiment relative to neutral responses about Asian Americans. We discuss these findings in line with a theory of racial animus as a disposition that is subject to temporary, episodic activation.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01902725231191644
L. Bobo
Twenty years ago I had the honor and challenge of editing a special issue of Social Psychology Quarterly titled ‘‘Race, Racism, and Discrimination.’’ The core ambition at that time was to spark, solicit, and highlight work that exhibited certain bridging characteristics. In particular, my hope was to publish work that, first, spanned traditionally insular either problem-focused research, singlemethod or purely methodological work, or high-level theorizing work; second, involved multiple-group, not singleor dichotomous-group, pairings; and, third, sprung from or would amplify the perspectives of those from historically marginalized groups. In hindsight, I believe the issue was reasonably successful at pressing forward on a number of these ambitions. However one judges that earlier SPQ special issue, it is clear that important developments in both social science in general and the larger societal context warrant a focus on new and innovative analyses now underway. A variety of developments have reshaped the social research landscape with regard to race, racism, and discrimination. Sociologists devote more attention to research design and data analysis approaches that advance the goal of causal inference (Gangl 2010). A variety of ‘‘big data’’ sources are transforming the complexity and fine-grained character of analyses that social scientists can now conduct (McFarland, Lewis, and Goldberg 2015). More scholars attempt to bring mixedor multimethod research approaches to their investigations (Pearce 2012). Yet, not all important social scientific trends of the past two decades are about data and analytical methods. There has been a very significant reassertion of the importance of the groundbreaking theoretical ideas and work of W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founding luminaries of sociology (Morris 2015). Similarly, a growing number of journal outlets, in part a reflection of the increasing diversity of those scholars doing important work in this arena, are very much part of the recent change.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01902725231177645
Malissa Alinor, Ronald L. Simons, M. Lei
Existing research demonstrates that racial discrimination negatively affects life outcomes for Black Americans. Yet, it is unknown how exposure to racial discrimination changes over time. To address this gap, we (1) assess the pattern of experiences with racial discrimination from age 10 to 30; (2) test how exposure to discrimination changes within childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; and (3) analyze factors associated with experiencing racial discrimination over time. To accomplish this, we use seven waves of the Family and Community Health Study, a longitudinal data set of Black Americans. We observe a curvilinear relationship between discrimination and age such that exposure initially increases in childhood, peaks in adolescence, then declines in adulthood. Using piecewise growth modeling, we find support for this pattern, marking the period from childhood to adolescence as a critical time period. Finally, factors such as geographical location, criminal justice involvement, and attending college are associated with experiencing greater racial discrimination.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01902725221121825
Muna Adem, S. Rao, Helen B. Marrow, Melissa J. García, Dina G. Okamoto
Perceived discrimination is often theorized within a bounded social context, and much of this literature focuses on how structural and socioeconomic factors shape minorities’ perceptions of discrimination. However, immigrants exist in varied social contexts given their exposure to both home and destination countries. In this study, we propose a relational framework to understand how stratification systems in one's country of origin and relative group evaluations in new social contexts interact to shape experiences with perceived discrimination for immigrant groups. As a case study, we draw on an original, representative survey (N = 501) and follow-up interviews (N = 58) with Indian immigrants living in Atlanta and Philadelphia. Although respondents report a range of explicit to subtle discriminatory experiences, they often downplay or minimize them. We argue that interpreting these experiences relationally—in relation to Indians’ perceptions of discrimination abroad and toward other U.S. minority groups—is key to explaining this puzzle.
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