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- Title
Taking Race Off the Table: Agenda Setting and Support for Color-Blind Public Policy.
- Authors
Chow, Rosalind M.; Knowles, Eric D.
- Abstract
Whites are theorized to support color-blind policies as an act of racial agenda setting-an attempt to defend the existing hierarchy by excluding race from public and institutional discourse. The present analysis leverages work distinguishing between two forms of social dominance orientation (SDO): passive opposition to equality (SDO-E) and active desire for dominance (SDO-D). We hypothesized that agenda setting, as a subtle hierarchy-maintenance strategy, would be uniquely tied to high levels of SDO-E. When made to believe that the hierarchy was under threat, Whites high in SDO-E increased their endorsement of color-blind policy (Study 1), particularly when the racial hierarchy was framed as ingroup advantage (Study 2), and became less willing to include race as a topic in a hypothetical presidential debate (Study 3). Across studies, Whites high in SDO-D showed no affinity for agenda setting as a hierarchy-maintenance strategy.
- Subjects
POSTRACIALISM; RACE discrimination policy; SOCIAL dominance; EQUALITY; CAMPAIGN debates; ETHNICITY; ATTITUDE (Psychology); RACISM; SOCIAL classes; WHITE people; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2016, Vol 42, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167215611637