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Racial Resentment and White Opposition to Race-Conscious Programs: Principles or Prejudice?

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White racial resentment, derived from research on symbolic racism, has substantial effects on opposition to racial policies in a number of studies. However, its nature remains unclear. Resentment could derive from racial prejudice or stem from ideological principles – two very different bases for white opposition to contemporary racial policy. To assess the nature of racial resentment and its political effects, we examine data from a CATI survey of 760 white New York state residents that included an experimentally altered college-scholarship program along with measures of racial attitudes. The experiment manipulated the scholarship program beneficiaries’ race and socio-economic class. The impact of racial resentment was assessed separately for black and white recipients to determine whether racial resentment conveys opposition to programs targeted at blacks but not whites in line with the prejudice hypothesis, or has a stronger ideological component that drives opposition to the program regardless of recipient race. The data yield two key findings. First, racial resentment conveys racial prejudice. Racially resentful individuals were more opposed to programs targeted at black than white students. Second, racial resentment means different things to liberals and conservatives. Among liberals, racial resentment conveys the political effects of racial prejudice and is better predicted by overt measures of racial prejudice than among conservatives. Among conservatives, the nature of racial resentment is less clear cut. It is closely tied to opposition to race-conscious programs regardless of recipient race and is only weakly tied to measures of overt prejudice, but is not well explained by ideological factors.

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racial resentment, racial policy, prejudice, values
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Feldman, Stanley. and Huddy, Leonie. "Racial Resentment and White Opposition to Race-Conscious Programs: Principles or Prejudice?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Sheraton Music City, Nashville, TN, Aug 16, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p116444_index.html>

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Feldman, S. and Huddy, L. , 2003-08-16 "Racial Resentment and White Opposition to Race-Conscious Programs: Principles or Prejudice?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Sheraton Music City, Nashville, TN <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p116444_index.html

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Abstract: White racial resentment, derived from research on symbolic racism, has substantial effects on opposition to racial policies in a number of studies. However, its nature remains unclear. Resentment could derive from racial prejudice or stem from ideological principles – two very different bases for white opposition to contemporary racial policy. To assess the nature of racial resentment and its political effects, we examine data from a CATI survey of 760 white New York state residents that included an experimentally altered college-scholarship program along with measures of racial attitudes. The experiment manipulated the scholarship program beneficiaries’ race and socio-economic class. The impact of racial resentment was assessed separately for black and white recipients to determine whether racial resentment conveys opposition to programs targeted at blacks but not whites in line with the prejudice hypothesis, or has a stronger ideological component that drives opposition to the program regardless of recipient race. The data yield two key findings. First, racial resentment conveys racial prejudice. Racially resentful individuals were more opposed to programs targeted at black than white students. Second, racial resentment means different things to liberals and conservatives. Among liberals, racial resentment conveys the political effects of racial prejudice and is better predicted by overt measures of racial prejudice than among conservatives. Among conservatives, the nature of racial resentment is less clear cut. It is closely tied to opposition to race-conscious programs regardless of recipient race and is only weakly tied to measures of overt prejudice, but is not well explained by ideological factors.

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