The Influence of Social Protests on Issue Salience among Latinos

Carey, Tony E.; Branton, Regina; Martinez‐Ebers, Valerie

doi:10.1177/1065912914534074

Cited by 26 publications

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“…For example, examing Latino public opinion before, during, and after the protest wave, Silber Mohamed () found that the demonstrations bolstered Latinos’ sense of American identity and panethnicity, while Zepeda‐Millán and Wallace's () study revealed that Latino perceptions of racial identity increased during and after the protests compared to before they began. Similarly, very little prior work examines the spatial dimensions of the protests and how proximity influenced Latino public opinion (see, however, Wallace, Zepeda‐Millán, and Jones Correa, ; Carey et al., ).…”

Section: Time Space and The Effects Of Protests On Public Opinionmentioning

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The Impact of Large‐Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African Americans*

Jones-Correa

Wallace

Zepeda-Millán

2015

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives To evaluate the impact of protests on Latinos' perceptions of commonality and competition with African Americans. We hypothesize that the reinforcement and politicization of in‐group identities leads to greater identification and sense of commonality with other marginalized racial/ethnic groups. Methods This study utilizes geocoded Latino National Survey data combined with an expanded protest event data set to estimate the effect of temporal and spatial proximity to immigrant rights protests on Latinos’ perceptions of commonality and competition with African Americans using ordered logistic regression models. Results The findings suggest that respondents’ proximity to marches had a positive impact on Latino perceptions of commonality with African Americans. The results also show that proximity to protests did not lead to an increase in feelings of competition with African Americans except in the case of electoral representation. Conclusions Examining temporal and spatial effects of protests improves our understanding of how protests can influence public opinion and how protests can influence identities and group relations.

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Section: Time Space and The Effects Of Protests On Public Opinionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Large‐Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African Americans*

Jones-Correa

Wallace

Zepeda-Millán

2015

Social Science Quarterly

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“…Valdez (2011:480) writes, "My findings confirm that group identity influences Latinos' political action and, furthermore, that the relationship between group identity and consciousness differentially influences Latinos' electoral and nonelectoral activities, with generally positive outcome." More recently, Carey et al (2014) show how intragroup Latino tensions may undermine political engagement. First, the authors show that Latinos who experience discrimination from other Latinos felt more intragroup competition.…”

Section: Background On Latinos and Votingmentioning

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“…The authors found that Latinos who felt more intragroup competitions held negative views on immigration and supported more restrictive immigration policies. Carey et al (2014) suggest that intragroup tension may undermine the efforts to rally Latinos for political purposes.…”

Section: Background On Latinos and Votingmentioning

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Searching for the “Sleeping Giant”: Racialized News Coverage of Latinos Pre‐2020 Elections

Gonzalez‐Sobrino

2020

Sociological Forum

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Latinos are often thought as potential game changers in the political world in the United States. As the media discusses and analyzes the 2016 election and the path to the 2020 elections, narratives on the role of Latinos leading up to the 2020 election have started to emerge. In this article, I seek to examine how U.S. daily newspapers frame the role of Latinos in the 2016 election and leading up to the 2020 elections. Previous literature has focused on the racialized media coverage of African American politicians and the effects of racial priming; however, extant literature has not explored how Latinos are framed in U.S. media when it comes to electoral politics. Using a sample of newspaper articles from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, I found that newspapers largely focus on the demographic changes while operating under various assumptions about those changes. First, newspapers frame Latinos as more likely to vote for a politician if they are Latino. Second, they construct Latinos as a monolithic ethnoracial group that has simplistic interests in immigration. Third, Latino voters and African American voters are often lumped into the same category when discussing mobilization. These narratives continue a tradition of framing Latinos in monolithic ways, while also showing slight departures from previous narratives.

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“…Although little research has examined the impact of direct encounter with protests, past research in political science and sociology has indirectly linked protests to public opinion. This work has typically used geographical proximity to local protest events based on geocoded data as predictors of attitudes reported in public opinion polls (e.g., Andrews et al, 2016;Branton et al, 2015;Carey Jr., Branton, & Martinez-Ebers, 2014; Jones-Correa, Wallace, & Zepeda-Millán, 2016;Silber Mohamed, 2013;Wallace et al, 2014). For example, Andrews et al (2016) found that the closer White Southerners' homes were to locations of sit-ins during the African American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s that aimed to desegregate the Southern U.S., the more they sympathized with the movement.…”

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A field study around a racial justice protest on a college campus: The proximal impact of collective action on the social change attitudes of uninvolved bystanders

Selvanathan

Lickel

2019

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Social movements often use protests and other collective actions to draw public attention to their cause, yet the psychological reactions to such actions from their targeted audience is not well understood. This research investigates uninvolved bystanders' immediate responses to collective action using a quasi-experimental field study designed around a racial justice protest that took place at a large public university in the United States. We surveyed two student samples exactly one week apart at the same time and location, first in the absence of protest and then again at the time of a racial justice protest (Total N = 240). We found that participants who believed that racism was not a problem on campus had more negative attitudes toward racial justice protests and protesters, as well as lower support for anti-racist efforts on campus on the day of the protest, compared to the day without a protest. These findings provide initial evidence that a protest encounter may trigger a backlash effect amongst those who have the most resistant attitudes toward social change.

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The Influence of Social Protests on Issue Salience among Latinos

Cited by 26 publications

References 36 publications

The Impact of Large‐Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African Americans*

The Impact of Large‐Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African Americans*

Searching for the “Sleeping Giant”: Racialized News Coverage of Latinos Pre‐2020 Elections

A field study around a racial justice protest on a college campus: The proximal impact of collective action on the social change attitudes of uninvolved bystanders

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