2001
DOI: 10.1080/15295030109367121
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Genetics, race, and crime: An audience study exploringthe bell curveand book reviews

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“…Adding genetic science as a resource might be useful for bolstering racism in the present context, where science has more cachet for some audiences than do religious texts, but Michele Ramsey and colleagues’ mixed methods study of reactions to The Bell Curve indicated that racism remains the primary driver and genetics is a supporting justification, strategically deployed. That study showed that “those whites who had strong negative affect toward persons of other races appropriated both genetic and environmental accounts to bolster their racism, while both blacks and whites with more egalitarian attitudes were able to incorporate genetic accounts into their schemas.” Further, Byrd and Ray’s general population survey found high racism to be more closely associated with nongenetic accounts: “decreased belief in genetic explanations for blacks’ personality and behaviors among whites with higher traditional racial prejudice suggests that whites lean on cultural and individual arguments.” Their results are complex but indicate the ways in which ideological factors (such as individualism and suspicion of technoscience among some “whites”) influence how elements such as “genetics” and “race” may be deployed in different ways.…”
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“…Adding genetic science as a resource might be useful for bolstering racism in the present context, where science has more cachet for some audiences than do religious texts, but Michele Ramsey and colleagues’ mixed methods study of reactions to The Bell Curve indicated that racism remains the primary driver and genetics is a supporting justification, strategically deployed. That study showed that “those whites who had strong negative affect toward persons of other races appropriated both genetic and environmental accounts to bolster their racism, while both blacks and whites with more egalitarian attitudes were able to incorporate genetic accounts into their schemas.” Further, Byrd and Ray’s general population survey found high racism to be more closely associated with nongenetic accounts: “decreased belief in genetic explanations for blacks’ personality and behaviors among whites with higher traditional racial prejudice suggests that whites lean on cultural and individual arguments.” Their results are complex but indicate the ways in which ideological factors (such as individualism and suspicion of technoscience among some “whites”) influence how elements such as “genetics” and “race” may be deployed in different ways.…”
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“…Entman and Rojecki, for example, found that only one of their interviewees articulated a biologically based view of racism. Other studies of lay discourse about race also did not find biological accounts playing a large role (34)(35)(36). Nonetheless, studies have suggested that persons who accept genetic explanations for racial differences tend to score relatively high on traditional measures of prejudice (25) (p466).…”
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“…That term describes a theory arising from numerous empirical studies that show how political values can color the interpretation of facts, 1 causing people to react more critically to evidence for politically inconvenient truths and less critically to evidence for politically convenient ones (e.g., lodge and Taber 2005;skitka et al 2002). beliefs regarding the origins of human characteristics indeed appear to be influenced by normative demands (e.g., hofstadter [1944] 1992lewontin, rose, and Kamin 1984;ramsey, Achter, and condit 2001). Although motivated reasoning is a compelling explanation for why ideology and attributions may be associated in general, the theory does not suggest any specific linkages between political ideology and genetic explanations, per se.…”
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