scholarly journals A Portrait of African American and White Racial Attitudes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Krysan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
White Racial Attitudes

scholarly journals The Geography of Black Candidate Electoral Success

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 333-356
Author(s):  
Marcus Allen ◽  
Marvin King
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
State Level ◽  
Black Population ◽  
The State ◽  
Black Candidate ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
White Racial Attitudes ◽  
Elected Office

In this manuscript, we reexamine claims about the geography of electoral success of African American candidates. Barack Obama’s historic election in 2008 prompted journalists, partisans, and scholars to review prior notions of where African American candidates can successfully contend for elected office. Although Obama’s victory is just an anecdotal national example (albeit an important one), we review the available evidence at the state level to understand what factors might impede African American electoral success. Heretofore, the literature focused on the density of the black population, and the interconnectedness of region and white racial attitudes. This paper shows that these old standbys can no longer explain African American electoral success.

A Case Study: Assessing the Effects of Speaker Event on White Racial Attitudes

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gauthamie Poolokasingham ◽  
Lisa Spanierman ◽  
E. Janie Pinterits ◽  
Tim Engles
Keyword(s):  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
White Racial Attitudes

Strategies for Combating Erasure and Silencing

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Yelaine Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
African American ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Art And Activism

Curated by Yelaine Rodriguez and edited by Tatiana Flores, this Dialogues stages a series of conversations around Afro-Latinx art through interventions by Afro-Latina cultural producers. Black Latinxs often feel excluded both from the framework of latinidad as well as from the designation “African American.” The essays address blackness in a US Latinx context, through discussion of curatorial approaches, biographical reflections, art historical inquiry, artistic projects, and museum-based activism. Recent conversations around Latinxs and Black Lives Matter reveal that in the popular imaginary, Latinx presupposes a Brown identity. In their contributions to “Afro-Latinx Art and Activism,” the authors argue for a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of Latinx that does not reproduce the racial attitudes of the Lusophone and Hispanophone countries of Latin America, nor the black-white binary of the United States. They look forward to a time when the terms Afro or Black might cease to be necessary qualifiers of Latinx.

Rebuttals as deracializing strategies for African American and white candidates

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Matthew Tokeshi
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Central Line ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Campaign Strategy ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Campaign Messages ◽  
Racial Cues

Abstract The study of American racial politics has long focused on the conditions that activate racial animosity. A central line of research demonstrates that campaign messages that highlight negative stereotypes of African Americans can activate whites' racial attitudes. However, little is known about whether this activation can be overcome. I develop a theory of racial deactivation and test its predictions with two survey experiments. I find that explicitly criticizing the racial nature of an attack restores support for white candidates, but not African American candidates. However, African American and white candidates fare equally well using two rebuttal styles: a credible, non-racial justification of the attacked action or an explicit racial critique combined with the justification. The results have implications for how race affects campaigns, the susceptibility of the American public to racial cues, and campaign strategy.

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