Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale

Neville, Helen A.; Lilly, Roderick L.; Duran, Georgia; Browne, LaVonne

doi:10.1037/t00078-000

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“…Racial Attitudes Scale (COBRAS), developed by Neville, Lilly, Duran, Lee, and Browne (2000). The COBRAS assesses the extent to which individuals deny or are unaware of racial dynamics.…”

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Correlates of intake and disposition decisions by child protective services professionals.

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This study examined intake and post-investigative disposition decision making among professionals engaged in child protective services to understand disproportionality and disparities in the child welfare system. Using child welfare, decision making, and attribution theories as a framework, a multivariate 2x2x2 factorial vignette design was used to examine intake and post-investigative disposition decision making among 400 child protective caseworkers and supervisors employed in a Midwestern state. Data were gathered through an online self-administered survey. Among the key variables of interest-race, socioeconomic status, and family structure-only the family's socioeconomic status was found to influence the intake decision but none were associated with the disposition decision. As expected, participants in this study who endorsed the child's removal were more likely to attribute the cause of the maltreatment to a parent's internal characteristics rather than any external circumstances; and this was more so when the family was described as either two-parent or middle socioeconomic status. Plus, prior involvement of a family with CPS was found to be a key predictor of both screen-in and removal. Implications of these findings iv for practice and future research to understand disproportionality and disparities in the child welfare system are discussed. v

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“…Racial Attitudes Scale (COBRAS), developed by Neville, Lilly, Duran, Lee, and Browne (2000). The COBRAS assesses the extent to which individuals deny or are unaware of racial dynamics.…”

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“…Color-Blind Racial Attitude Scale (COBRAS;Neville et al, 2000) The COBRAS measures the extent to which individuals deny or are unaware of racial dynamics, and possible COBRAS scores range from 20 to 120.…”

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Correlates of intake and disposition decisions by child protective services professionals.

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“…Colorblind socialization derives from the color-blind racial ideology, which is comprised of two interrelated dimensions: color-evasion and power-evasion. Color-evasion strategy involves denying racial differences by emphasizing sameness between races, while power-evasion is considered "the ultramodern form of racism" and is characterized by the denial of racism as a real issue by emphasizing equal opportunities to succeed between races (Neville, Awad, Brooks, is that it is effective for reducing prejudice and reaching racial equality, although research has indicated that this premise is untrue and that individuals who endorse this strategy are more likely to engage in a racially insensitive manner (Neville, Lilly, Duran, Lee, & Browne, 2000). Taking a multiculturalism stance to reducing racial prejudice and achieving racial equality is the alternative of the color-evasion strategy.…”

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“…Those who subscribe to the power-evasion dimension of the colorblind racial ideology attempt to ignore racism by denying blatant forms of racism, minimizing institutional racism, and/or distorting racial privilege (Neville, Awad, Brooks, Flores, & Bluemel, 2013;Neville et al, 2000;Norton & Sommers, 2011). The powerevasion strategy is also linked to beliefs in a just world: the idea that society is just and fair (Neville et al, 2013).…”

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“…Researchers have concluded that using the color-evasion approach to achieve racial equality is counterintuitive and ineffective when compared multicultural approaches that celebrate racial uniqueness. Furthermore, power-evasion stances reinforce racial prejudice and inequality by denying the realities of racial disparities unlike color-conscious approaches (Hagerman, 2014;Neville et al, 2000).…”

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Racial Attitudes: The Effects of Colorblind Parenting

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Previous studies have revealed the prevalence of pro-White bias in young children, making it important to uncover the mechanisms driving this bias. Literature shows that parents play a crucial role in children's racial and ethnic socialization, the mechanisms through which information, values, and perspectives about race and ethnicity are transmitted to children. White parents, when compared to non-White parents, speak significantly less about race with their children and engage in colorblind socialization. However, there is scant research on how parents who endorse the colorblind ideology contribute to the development of intergroup biases in their children. In this study, we used a sample of 22 White and non-White mothers and 28 children to propose that higher colorblind endorsement in mothers would be correlated with higher implicit and explicit pro-White bias in children. Additionally, we aimed to replicate previous findings regarding correlates of mothers' and children's racial attitudes, including the influence of interracial contact. We also recruited 48 Wesleyan students to validate previous findings on the relationship between colorblind endorsement, implicit bias, explicit bias, and interracial contact. Likely due to the inability to perform informative analyses with a larger sample size, we did not find a correlation between higher colorblind endorsement in mothers and higher racial bias in children. However, we replicated previous findings of a positive relationship between colorblind endorsement and explicit and implicit pro-White bias in adults. Further research includes testing a hypothesis focused on the importance of mother's implicit bias in the relationship between mothers' colorblind endorsement and children's racial bias.

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On melting pots and salad bowls: A meta-analysis of the effects of identity-blind and identity-conscious diversity ideologies.

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Journal of Applied Psychology

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Significant debate exists regarding whether different diversity ideologies, defined as individuals' beliefs regarding the importance of demographic differences and how to navigate them, improve intergroup relations in organizations and the broader society. We seek to advance understanding by drawing finer-grained distinctions among diversity ideology types and intergroup relations outcomes. To this end, we use random effects meta-analysis (k ϭ 296) to investigate the effects of 3 identity-blind ideologiescolorblindness, meritocracy, and assimilation-and 1 identity-conscious ideology-multiculturalism-on 4 indicators of high quality intergroup relations-reduced prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping and increased diversity policy support. Multiculturalism is generally associated with high quality intergroup relations (prejudice: ϭ Ϫ.32; discrimination: ϭ Ϫ.22; stereotyping: ϭ Ϫ.17; policy support: ϭ .57). In contrast, the effects of identity-blind ideologies vary considerably. Different identity-blind ideologies have divergent effects on the same outcome; for example, colorblindness is negatively related ( ϭ Ϫ.19), meritocracy is unrelated ( ϭ .00), and assimilation is positively related ( ϭ .17) to stereotyping. Likewise, the same ideology has divergent effects on different outcomes; for example, meritocracy is negatively related to discrimination ( ϭ Ϫ.48), but also negatively related to policy support ( ϭ Ϫ.45) and unrelated to prejudice ( ϭ Ϫ.15) and stereotyping ( ϭ .00). We discuss the implications of our findings for theory, practice, and future research.

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Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale

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Correlates of intake and disposition decisions by child protective services professionals.

Correlates of intake and disposition decisions by child protective services professionals.

The Intergenerational Transmission of Racial Attitudes: The Effects of Colorblind Parenting

On melting pots and salad bowls: A meta-analysis of the effects of identity-blind and identity-conscious diversity ideologies.

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