Differentiating Contemporary Racial Prejudice from Old-Fashioned Racial Prejudice

Tony N. Brown; Mark K. Akiyama; Ismail K. White; Toby Epstein Jayaratne; Elizabeth S. Anderson

doi:10.1007/s12552-009-9010-6

Differentiating Contemporary Racial Prejudice from Old-Fashioned Racial Prejudice

Tony N. Brown, Mark K. Akiyama, Ismail K. White, Toby Epstein Jayaratne, Elizabeth S. Anderson

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Abstract

The present study addresses the distinction between contemporary and old-fashioned prejudice using survey data from a national sample (n = 600) of self-identified whites living in the United States and interviewed by telephone in 2001. First, we examine associations among indicators of contemporary and old-fashioned prejudice. Consistent with the literature, contemporary and old-fashioned prejudice indicators represent two distinct but correlated common factors. Second, we examine whether belief in genetic race differences uniformly predicts both types of prejudice. As might be expected, belief in genetic race differences predicts old-fashioned prejudice but contrary to recent theorizing, it also predicts contemporary prejudice.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	97-110
Number of pages	14
Journal	Race and Social Problems
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-009-9010-6
State	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Anthropology
Sociology and Political Science

Keywords

Belief in genetic race differences
Contemporary racial prejudice
Genetic explanations
Old-fashioned racial prejudice

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