African Americans endorse anti-Black stereotypes more strongly than European Americans do

Evidence

Sniderman and Piazza (1993) found in a large, nationally representative sample that African American respondents generally accepted unfavorable stereotypes of their own group as lazy, irresponsible, and violent. In fact, they endorsed these stereotypes even more strongly than European American respondents did. Jost et al. (2004) found that 37.5 percent of gay and lesbian respondents held implicit attitudes that were more favorable toward heterosexuals than homosexuals, and 39.3 percent of African Americans held implicit attitudes that were more favorable toward the European American outgroup than the African American ingroup. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1403

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why would disadvantaged groups endorse stereotypes of themselves even MORE strongly than outgroup members? Worth chasing the mechanism — system justification, or something about ingroup knowledge and self-critique?
• XREF: Connects to social identity theory and to Jost and Banaji’s original system justification papers; also echoes claims about internalized oppression from black psychology literature.