Unity Versus Uniformity: Effects of Targeted Advertising on Perceptions of Group Politics
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 530-547
ISSN: 1091-7675
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In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 530-547
ISSN: 1091-7675
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 21-37
ISSN: 1467-9221
Using two survey experiments, I reconsider the role that the racialized physical traits and level of assimilation of salient immigrants play in shaping attitudes toward immigration. In the first experiment, a nationwide sample of 767 White, non‐Latino adults was exposed to a story about a family of undocumented immigrants living in the Unites States who were at risk of deportation. Subjects were randomly assigned to view a version of the story in which the immigrants were depicted with light skin and stereotypically Eurocentric features, or dark skin and stereotypically Afrocentric features, and their level of assimilation to mainstream American culture was suggested to be high or low. Similar to previous research, the study's results show that assimilation has a direct effect on attitudes toward immigration. Yet in contrast to previous studies, the racialized physical traits proved to be a much more important factor in shaping attitudes toward immigration than previously demonstrated. The role of an immigrant's racialized physical traits was replicated in a second survey experiment of 902 White, non‐Latino adults. Overall, the findings shed new light on how media depictions of immigrants are affecting immigration attitudes, as well as the nuanced ways that race continues to shape public opinion in the United States today.
In: Political behavior, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 561-582
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: IRB: ethics & human research, Band 2, Heft 8, S. 7
ISSN: 2326-2222
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 53-72
ISSN: 1091-7675
In: Political communication, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 53-72
ISSN: 1058-4609
The color of our politics and the politics of our color -- The roots of race : skin color, ethnoracial identity, and the broader racial construct -- Theory of ethnoracial boundaries and politics -- The color we see? Measuring skin tone in the U.S. mass public -- The relationship between skin color, ethnoracial identification, and socioeconomic status -- The relationship between skin color, ethnoracial identification, and political views -- Conclusion: Making sense of skin color and politics in America.
In: Political behavior, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 1369-1392
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction, S. 217-230
In: The year in ecology and conservation biology 2009
In: Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences 1162
In: The year in ecology and conservation biology 2008
In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1134
In: Political behavior, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 423-449
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Protecting Critical Infrastructure 2
In: Journal of race, ethnicity and politics: JREP, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 446-468
ISSN: 2056-6085
AbstractBlack Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party are among the many movements that have reignited media attention to protest activity. Yet, there is much to learn about what this media coverage conveys. In particular, how much does who is protesting matter for how the media portray protesters and their objectives? In this paper, we draw on an extensive content analysis of cable and broadcast news media coverage of protest activities to demonstrate substantial differences in how protests are covered depending on the race and objective of the protesters. We find that media are much more likely to depict protests by people of color using language that evokes a sense of threat by using anger- and fear-laden language than comparable coverage of protest activity involving mostly White individuals. Our results demonstrate that racial biases in news coverage are much broader than previously thought. In doing so, our work highlights the powerful role that a protester's race plays in whether the media will condone or challenge their political voice.