Aversive racism pits sincere egalitarian values against unacknowledged anti-Black feelings.

Evidence

These results were interpreted by Gaertner and Dovidio (1986) as evidence for aversive racism, which they defined as a conflict “between feelings and beliefs associated with a sincerely egalitarian value system and unacknowledged negative feelings and beliefs about Blacks” (p. 62). — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 198

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines aversive racism as a value-belief conflict, a key construct in implicit social cognition.
• XREF: This skeptical-of-self-report definition directly parallels MOC’s self-deception-of-group-defense notion; the implicit/explicit divergence is exactly the reader’s reading purpose. — connects to: Members of disadvantaged groups deny their own discrimination implicitly — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 154; Implicit gender stereotypes are shared by both sexes. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 223; Aversive racism arises from conflict between disavowed anti-Black feelings and egalitarian beliefs — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2093 (+9 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 198

Related

• Aversive racism arises from conflict between disavowed anti-Black feelings and egalitarian beliefs (similarity 0.88)
• Aversive racists discriminate only where bias can be excused nonracially (similarity 0.87)
• Aversive racism and unconscious bias breed miscommunication and distrust (similarity 0.80)
• Modern antiblack bias stems from perceived value violations, not biological inferiority claims (similarity 0.79)
• Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests (similarity 0.79)
• People suppress prejudice only when aware their actions may look discriminatory (similarity 0.78)
• Blatant racism has shifted into subtle aversive forms (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Aversive racism arises from conflict between disavowed anti-Black feelings and egalitarian beliefs #corroborates (0.98) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2093
• Egalitarian values clash internally with prejudice, producing conflicted rather than pure attitudes. #corroborates (0.92)
• Aversive racists discriminate only where bias can be excused nonracially #expands (0.90) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2169
• Aversive racists discriminate mainly when norms make prejudice easy to rationalize. #expands (0.90)
• Aversive racists discriminate mainly when bias can be masked by nonracial excuses. #expands (0.90)
• Blatant racism has shifted into subtle aversive forms #expands (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1101
• Aversive racism and unconscious bias breed miscommunication and distrust #expands (0.85) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 715
• Even people with consciously egalitarian values act in ways that worsen racial disparities. #qualifies (0.80) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1350
• Consciously egalitarian values fail to prevent racially disparate behavior #qualifies (0.80)
• Symbolic racism combines antiblack affect with conservative nonracial values #complicates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3752