Is Affirmative Action American? An Examination of Modern Racism, Color Blindness, and American Values

Is Affirmative Action American? An Examination of Modern Racism, Color Blindness, and American Values

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Main Author: Hall, Ritchie V., II
Language:English
Published: University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK 2015
Subjects:
Psychology
Color Blindness
Racial Identity
Modern Racism
Affirmative Action
American Values
Race
Online Access:http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1430749961
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spelling ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin14307499612021-08-03T06:30:58Z Is Affirmative Action American? An Examination of Modern Racism, Color Blindness, and American Values Hall, Ritchie V., II Psychology Color Blindness Racial Identity Modern Racism Affirmative Action American Values Race While race relations remain a divisive and controversial issue, very few studies examine the relationship between negative racial attitudes, American Values and Affirmative Action. This study examined the relationship of variables referred to here as “Perceiver Characteristics” (i.e., race, gender, and race saliency) and “Values Expectancy” (i.e., Modern Racism, Color Blindness, and American Values) to the endorsement of Affirmative Action Policy. This study recruited 207 undergraduate students to participate in an online survey using a battery of measures including the Attitude Toward Affirmative Action Scale (Kravitz & Platania, 1993), the Modern Racism Scale (McConahay, 1983), the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (Neville, Lily, Duran, Lee & Browne, 2000), The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (Phinney,1992), and the American Values Scale (Citrin, Reingold & Green, 1990). The findings revealed that White males scored higher in Modern Racism than African American males and females, but not White females. White males also scored lower in Affirmative Action Endorsement than African American males, but not White and African American females. Color Blindness and Modern Racism were inversely related to the endorsement of Affirmative Action programs. The current study also found that individuals who identified as high in American Values tended to also be high in Modern Racism and Color Blindness. Lastly, study findings revealed that Modern Racism and Color Blindness mediated the relationship of both gender, and race to Affirmative Action policy endorsement. A key finding of this study was that a person’s race, or gender, may influence their levels of Modern Racism, and/or Color Blindness, which may influence their Affirmative Action endorsement. Implications for future research are provided. 2015-06-02 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1430749961 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1430749961 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: some rights reserved. It is licensed for use under a Creative Commons license. Specific terms and permissions are available from this document's record in the OhioLINK ETD Center.
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language English
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topic Psychology
Color Blindness
Racial Identity
Modern Racism
Affirmative Action
American Values
Race
spellingShingle Psychology
Color Blindness
Racial Identity
Modern Racism
Affirmative Action
American Values
Race
Hall, Ritchie V., II
Is Affirmative Action American? An Examination of Modern Racism, Color Blindness, and American Values
author Hall, Ritchie V., II
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title Is Affirmative Action American? An Examination of Modern Racism, Color Blindness, and American Values
title_short Is Affirmative Action American? An Examination of Modern Racism, Color Blindness, and American Values
title_full Is Affirmative Action American? An Examination of Modern Racism, Color Blindness, and American Values
title_fullStr Is Affirmative Action American? An Examination of Modern Racism, Color Blindness, and American Values
title_full_unstemmed Is Affirmative Action American? An Examination of Modern Racism, Color Blindness, and American Values
title_sort is affirmative action american? an examination of modern racism, color blindness, and american values
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