Pro-Black Doesn't Mean Anti-White: The Structure of African-American Group Identity

Herring, Mary; Jankowski, Thomas B.; Brown, Ronald E.

doi:10.2307/2647508

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“…This construct is important because many African Americans strongly believe that what is "best" for blacks in general is also salient to their own individual self-interests (Dawson 1994). In fact, as previously mentioned, studies have shown that commitments to linked fate strongly influence attitudes about the contemporary black experience (Dawson 1994(Dawson , 2001Gurin et al 1989;Herring et al 1999). Second, scholars have also long-since recognized the legacy of racial oppression as a unique feature of the black social heritage.…”

Section: Social Heritagementioning

confidence: 88%

Extending the Debate over Nationalism Versus Integration: How Cultural Commitments and Assimilation Trajectories Influence Beliefs About Black Power

Shelton

Emerson

2009

J Afr Am St

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This paper revisits the longstanding ideological debate over black nationalism versus inter-racial integration. Survey research in this area concentrates on various concerns related to black nationalism. Consequently, scholars know very little about the relative effects of factors influencing the broader variation in beliefs about Black Power. The present study addresses this gap in the literature in several ways, most notably by testing predictions deriving from the Investment in Blackness Hypothesis. This new assimilation-based theory of adult African American identity posits that cultural commitments and assimilation trajectories drive contrasting levels of support for black nationalism and inter-racial integration. Findings from the 1997 Survey of Chicago African Americans are largely consistent with the investment thesis. The implications of the results are discussed, as well as the study's limitations and suggestions for future research.

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Section: Social Heritagementioning

confidence: 88%

Extending the Debate over Nationalism Versus Integration: How Cultural Commitments and Assimilation Trajectories Influence Beliefs About Black Power

Shelton

Emerson

2009

J Afr Am St

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“…Solidarity consists of group identification as well as interpretive and prescriptive group-based ideologies transmitted through elite messages, contact among group members, and exposure to a common culture or history Hardin, 1995;Herring, Jankowski, and Brown, 1999;Laitin, 1998;Rogers, 2001;Smith, 1986;Turner, 1999). To the extent that Asians and Latinos can be distinguished from African Americans on any of these dimensions, it is likely that group solidarity will have a different form and content among these groups than it has among their black American counterparts.…”

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confidence: 99%

Racial Solidarity and Political Participation

2005

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Studies conducted in the 1960s and 1970s generally confirmed that racial group solidarity boosted rates of participation among African Americans. But since the 1980s, research has tended to conclude that the effect of solidarity on voter turnout among blacks and other minorities has moderated if not faded entirely. We hypothesize that part of this observed decline is explained by a dilution of measures of group solidarity in recent studies. We argue that a fair test of racial solidarity requires using a comprehensive measure that incorporates both psychological ''identification'' and the ideological beliefs that comprise ''consciousness.'' Moreover, we hypothesize that the effects of solidarity, will vary across forms of participation and be greatest on political activities that require group coordination. Our re-analysis of the 1984 NBES using separate measures of identification and consciousness indicates that the more narrowly circumscribed measures of these concepts used in recent studies are likely to have underestimated its influence on political participation. We show that racial identification and consciousness had a modest effect on voting turnout in 1984, but a significant influence on participation in several traditional campaign activities, petitioning government officials, and especially participation in protests and boycotts.

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“…Consistent with a shared history of experienced racial discrimination (Dawson 1994(Dawson , 1997Gurin, Hatchett, and Jackson 1989;Herring, Jankowski, and Brown 1999;Sellers et al 1998), black Americans are more likely than white Americans to express feelings of "linked fate" across social classes (Dawson 1994(Dawson , 2001Gay and Tate 1998;Jaynes and Williams 1989;Simien 2005;Tate 1994) and to believe that economic differences are rooted in racial discrimination and imbalances in resource allocation (Jackman 1994;Kinder and Winter 2001). In short, these data suggest that among black Americans, liberal economic policy tends to be understood not as redistributing to those who have made poor choices, but instead as an obligation to those who are poor for systematic reasons.…”

Section: Context Effectsmentioning

confidence: 89%

Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts

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Pro-Black Doesn't Mean Anti-White: The Structure of African-American Group Identity

Cited by 77 publications

References 33 publications

Extending the Debate over Nationalism Versus Integration: How Cultural Commitments and Assimilation Trajectories Influence Beliefs About Black Power

Extending the Debate over Nationalism Versus Integration: How Cultural Commitments and Assimilation Trajectories Influence Beliefs About Black Power

Racial Solidarity and Political Participation

Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts

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