The Attitudinal Structure of African American Women Party Activists: The Impact of Race, Gender, and Religion

Clawson, Rosalee A.; Clark, John A.

doi:10.1177/106591290305600209

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“…This relationship is found in studies of adolescent males (Boggess & Bradner, 2000), and individuals of both sexes who are Hispanic (Ellison, Echevarria, & Smith, 2005), African American (Clawson & Clark, 2003;Simien & Clawson, 2004), and college students (Misra & Hohman, 2000).…”

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Trends in Abortion Attitudes by Race and Gender: A Reassessment Over a Four Decade Period

Carter

Dodge

2009

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The purpose of this paper is to reassess the interactive impact of race and gender on abortion attitudes over time. Data from the GSS are used to compare shifts in abortion attitudes of White and Black males and females over a four-decade period. Overall results suggest gender to be the stronger predictor of abortion attitudes. While maintaining similar attitudes toward abortion, White and Black males maintain more conservative attitudes than their female counterparts. Looking at trends, however, suggest that considering race and gender alone limits the understanding of abortion attitudes among these social groups. Results by decade reveal great shifts for White females in relation to Black females. White females and White males to a lesser extent initially appear more liberal in their views toward abortion; however, a shift over the decades produces a convergence and then a reversal, where Black females eventually become more liberal in the 1990s. Black males consistently reveal more conservative attitudes over the four-decade period than Black females and that trend appears to be holding. However, most interestingly and an area for further research, results suggest that abortion attitudes may actually be re-converging.

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Section: Other Factors Related To Abortion Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 84%

Trends in Abortion Attitudes by Race and Gender: A Reassessment Over a Four Decade Period

Carter

Dodge

2009

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“…These areas of study range from macro theories such as political realignment theory (Brooks ; Chen et al. ; Clubb, Flanagan, and Zingale ; Stimson ), which examines broad partisan shifts, to demographic influences such as race, class, gender, and age (Bartels ; Black and Black ; Brewer and Stonecash ; Clawson and Clark ; Green, Palmquist, and Schickler ; Jewett ; Manza and Brooks ; Stonecash, Brewer, and Peterson ; Walters ), or micro theories such as political socialization theory, which analyzes the development of the individual political identities that are central to mass political behavior (Conover and Searing ; Gimpel and Celeste ; Gimpel, Celeste, and Schuknecht ; Haste and Torney‐Purta ; McFarland and Reuben ; Niemi and Hepburn ; Plutzer ; Sherrod ). Political realignment theory, demographic characteristics, and political socialization are useful for understanding traditional partisan politics or voting patterns, but they do little to capture the process through which political attitudes are constructed through memories of past political events.…”

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Memories of War: Sources of Vietnam Veteran Pro‐ and Antiwar Political Attitudes

Flores

2014

Sociological Forum

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The sources of political attitudes are among the most studied phenomena of modern politics. Moving away from the traditional focus on party systems, the demographic characteristics of voters, or political socialization, I consider instead how memory and narrative shape political consciousness. Specifically, I focus on how culturally sanctioned memories of warfare influence the political attitudes of 24 Vietnam veterans. I compare two groups of Vietnam veterans who went to Vietnam in support of the war and political status quo, but who returned with opposing attitudes toward war. How can we understand these contrasting outcomes? Specifically, how do memories of war shape political attitudes? Antiwar veterans relate similar narratives of having their idealistic views of war challenged and experiencing a major rethinking of their support when they learn the true nature of warfare. On the other hand, pro-war veterans share a patterned narrative of indifference rather than idealism when describing their continued support of the war and political status quo after they return from Vietnam. I conclude by arguing that memory and narrative are an important mechanism for shaping political attitudes.

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When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm

Hancock¹

2007

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In the past twenty years, intersectionality has emerged as a compelling response to arguments on behalf of identity-based politics across the discipline. It has done so by drawing attention to the simultaneous and interacting effects of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and national origin as categories of difference. Intersectional arguments and research findings have had varying levels of impact in feminist theory, social movements, international human rights, public policy, and electoral behavior research within political science and across the disciplines of sociology, critical legal studies, and history. Yet consideration of intersectionality as a research paradigm has yet to gain a wide foothold in political science. This article closely reads research on race and gender across subfields of political science to present a coherent set of empirical research standards for intersectionality.

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The Attitudinal Structure of African American Women Party Activists: The Impact of Race, Gender, and Religion

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Trends in Abortion Attitudes by Race and Gender: A Reassessment Over a Four Decade Period

Trends in Abortion Attitudes by Race and Gender: A Reassessment Over a Four Decade Period

Memories of War: Sources of Vietnam Veteran Pro‐ and Antiwar Political Attitudes

When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm

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