The Fate of Obamacare: Racial Resentment, Ethnocentrism and Attitudes about Healthcare Reform

Maxwell, Angie; Shields, Todd

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“…Finally, an alternative measure of racial attitudes is also included as a control variable in order to test the hypothesis that cool evaluations of Michelle Obama are driven by negative black stereotypes that might measure something akin to old‐fashioned racial prejudice rather than racial resentment. Several studies have suggested that old‐fashioned racial prejudice has become salient during the Obama presidency as a predictor of vote choice, party identification, and attitudes about policies associated with Obama, most notably health care reform (Aistrup ; Hehman, Gaertner, and Dovidio ; Knowles, Lowery, and Schaumberg ; Knuckey and Kim ; Maxwell and Shields ; Piston ; Tesler ). The measure of negative black stereotypes follows the approach adopted by both Aistrup () and Piston ().…”

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“…Racial attitudes also played a major role in fueling the rise of the “Tea Party” movement (Abramowitz ; Jacobson ; Maxwell and Parent ; Tope, Pickett, and Chiricos ; Williamson, Skocpol, and Coggin ). Moreover, racial attitudes appear to be partially responsible for driving opposition to health care reform in the first term of the Obama administration (Henderson and Hillygus ; Knowles, Lowery, and Schaumberg ; Maxwell and Shields ; Tesler ). Conspiracy theories about the citizenship and religion of President Obama have also been motivated by racial attitudes (Maxwell, Dowe, and Shields ; Pasek et al ).…”

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Evaluations of Michelle Obama as First Lady: The Role of Racial Resentment

Knuckey

Kim

2016

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The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was initially viewed as signaling a postracial era in American politics. However, since 2008, race and racial attitudes have appeared to pervade American political discourse and shape political attitudes and behavior to an even greater extent. Using data from the American National Election Studies, this article examines the extent to which white racial attitudes have shaped evaluations of perhaps the most visible African American in politics today after the president: the First Lady, Michelle Obama. Findings show that racial resentment played a large role in evaluations of Michelle Obama, even after controlling for other explanatory variables, which include partisanship, ideology, and affect toward Barack Obama.

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Evaluations of Michelle Obama as First Lady: The Role of Racial Resentment

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Kim

2016

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“…Inequalities in health services in many countries of the world have led to reform programmes in their health systems. These programmes have been conducted in countries such as Australia, Korea, Germany, China, Chile and the USA (Burrows, ; Gerlinger, ; Jones, ; Louviere & Flynn, ; Maxwell & Shields, ; Wang, Gusmano, & Cao, ). Health services reforms are being implemented at a time when the nursing sector is plagued by a number of constraints and tensions, in particular a shortage of staff and general resource limitations.…”

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Health care reform in Iran: Implications for nurses’ moral distress, patient rights, satisfaction and turnover intention

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“…But it is easy to overstate the disparities in divisiveness between colorblind and color-conscious proposals. Evidence suggests that many universalistic reforms, such as expanding healthcare access for all citizens, are often perceived by whites as delivering unfair benefits to people of color (Maxwell and Shields, 2014). Even basic views about the reality of climate change are increasingly predicted by our attitudes about race (Benegal, 2018).…”

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Individual and Structural Interventions

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2020

An Introduction to Implicit Bias

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not to be included in print version for metadata only): Given all that we have learned about bias and injustice, what can we do-and what should we do-to fight back? Chapter 12 introduces empirically-tested interventions for combating implicit (and explicit) bias and promoting a fairer world, from small daily-life debiasing tricks to larger structural interventions. Along the way, this chapter raises a range of moral, political, and strategic questions about these interventions, and stresses the importance of admitting that we don't yet have all the answers. We must encourage intellectual humility and dedicate ourselves to gathering as much knowledge as possible.Changing the world is hard. Changing it for the better is usually harder than changing it for the worse. But why is positive change so difficult? Some answers are familiar. First, it's hard to get people to care, especially about problems in different places (physically or socially distant neighborhoods or countries) that don't confront us every day. Second, people are, understandably, wrapped up in pursuing personal goals (careers, families, hobbies). Third, and closely related to the first two reasons, many people feel like their votes and voices don't matter because the system is rigged (by corporate donors, gerrymandered voting districts, etc.) to make their political efforts pointless. Fourth, making change to promote equality is especially hard, because the haves are typically motivated to hold onto their advantages, and even to see their advantages as fair. Even the have-nots are easily hoodwinked into thinking that their disadvantages are fair when they're not (Jost, 2015). We derive comfort from believing we live in a merit-based society where, as long as you work hard enough, put your head down, and don't rile up political trouble, then your personal and professional life will go well. Fifth, people may (especially for certain jobs: maybe I don't want to hire someone convicted of decades of accounting fraud to be my accountant). But the result is that ex-offenders have a very hard time finding gainful employment, which in turn makes them more likely to become desperate to make ends meet, and then to re-offend and end up back in prison.Some ex-offenders have it worse than others. In one field study in Milwaukee, the odds of getting a callback for an interview were 34% for white male applicants with no criminal record but only 17% for white men with a criminal record. Moreover, the odds were 14% for black male applicants without a record, but only 5% for black men with a record (Pager, 2003).The first finding to note is that white men with a record had slightly better odds than black men without. Two follow-up studies in New York City found much the same: white applicants who had literally just gotten out of prison were slightly more likely to get a callback or job offer than black and Latinx applicants with spotless records (Pager et al., 2009). These studies illustrate how devastating a criminal record can be for anyone's job prospects, but espec...

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The Fate of Obamacare: Racial Resentment, Ethnocentrism and Attitudes about Healthcare Reform

Cited by 24 publications

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Evaluations of Michelle Obama as First Lady: The Role of Racial Resentment

Evaluations of Michelle Obama as First Lady: The Role of Racial Resentment

Health care reform in Iran: Implications for nurses’ moral distress, patient rights, satisfaction and turnover intention

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