What is it about?
What role does variation in Black racial identity play in explaining variation in African Americans’ social and political attitudes? We conducted a survey to help answer this question.
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Why is it important?
When it comes to African Americans’ identities and sociopolitical attitudes, certain generalizations are supported. They overwhelming identify with the Democratic Party and often believe their fate is linked to other African Americans. However, Black people also vary considerably in their beliefs about society and their place in it. We see such variability among intellectual figures such as Melissa Harris-Perry, Clarence Thomas, Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Alan Keyes, Jesse Jackson, Ben Carson, and Al Sharpton, to name a few. This research helps shed light on an important contributor to the variation in the social attitudes of Black people.
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This research contributes to an important and growing research tradition of focusing on the attitudes of minority group members.
Dr Ellie Shockley
Bismarck State College
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This page is a summary of: Dimensions of Black Identity Predict System Justification, Journal of Black Psychology, November 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0095798414557276.
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