Americans habitually mask racial views behind expressed commitment to equality

Evidence

It’s not typically the case that Americans express their racial views as forcefully as this guy from New Jersey. We’ve reached a point in this country where we usually hide how we really think. It’s a cultural norm to openly express a commitment to racial equality. So Americans have developed the habit of masking. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 160

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘masking’ as a distinct component of the racial-habits concept.
• XREF: connects to: Americans are taught to recognize only overt hate speech as racism — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 653; Ascribed status overrides achieved status even for celebrated Black Americans — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 81; White Americans deflect minority discrimination claims by recasting free speech as the harmed party. — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 73