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Whites’ Racial Policy Attitudes in the Twenty-First Century : The Continuing Significance of Racial Resentment

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A topic of long-standing interest in racial attitudes research is whites’ support for principles of racial equality on one hand coupled with their intransigence on policies designed to redress that inequality on the other. Much has been written on possible explanations of this “principle-policy gap” and what the gap reveals about the state of contemporary American race relations. In this article, the authors provide an update and partial replication of their 1996 study of whites’ views of racial policies in what has been referred to as our post-racial society. Using both General Social Survey and American National Election Survey data, the authors assess the current state of whites’ racial policy attitudes and the factors that shape those attitudes and consider whether any meaningful change has occurred in recent decades. Among the explanations of the principle-policy gap that the authors examine, one stands out as especially powerful: racial resentment, a variant of stratification ideology that focuses on the role of racial individualism in shaping white resistance to meaningful policy change. Moreover, the authors find no evidence that whites’ racial policy views have changed since the 1980s.

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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2011

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English

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00027162

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Vol. 634 no. 1, March 2011.pp. 134-152

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Racial resentment
Racial policy attitudes
Principle-policy gap
Stratification ideology

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