Aversive racism and unconscious bias breed miscommunication and distrust

Evidence

Dovidio and colleagues suggest that there is a good reason why ‘we can’t just get along’ – it is because there is something about the nature of racism that hinders the promotion and internalization of values such as communication, trust or solidarity. Communication and trust are ‘critical to developing long-term positive intergroup relations’ (Dovidio et al ., 2002b , p. 89), but (aversive) racism, in tandem with subtle, unconscious biases foster miscommunication and distrust. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 715

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Giving up on cross-racial dialogue is itself complicity in racism — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 206; Aversive racism pits sincere egalitarian values against unacknowledged anti-Black feelings. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 198; Resource depletion, distrust, and ethnic politics jointly trigger social unrest — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1163

Related

• Aversive racism pits sincere egalitarian values against unacknowledged anti-Black feelings. (similarity 0.80)
• Aversive racists discriminate only where bias can be excused nonracially (similarity 0.80)
• Giving up on cross-racial dialogue is itself complicity in racism (similarity 0.79)
• Subtle bias alone cannot explain racism’s societal persistence (similarity 0.79)
• Aversive racism arises from conflict between disavowed anti-Black feelings and egalitarian beliefs (similarity 0.79)