Black Americans endorse negative ingroup stereotypes more strongly than whites do

Evidence

Allport’s insight concerning the role of societal and cultural pressures helps to explain the prevalence of “self-hatred” and outgroup favoritism among members of low-status groups (e.g., Jost & Banaji, 1994; Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, 2004; Lewin, 1948; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999). Experimental and field studies have demonstrated that members of disadvantaged groups often hold ambivalent, conflicted attitudes about their own group memberships and surprisingly favorable attitudes toward members of more advantaged groups (e.g., Jost & Burgess, 2000; Jost, Pelham, & Carvallo, 2002). For instance, 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. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1403

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• QUESTION: The 37.5 and 39.3 percent figures are striking but modest — worth chasing whether implicit outgroup favoritism is really majority or minority among disadvantaged groups.
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Related

• African Americans endorse anti-Black stereotypes more strongly than European Americans do (similarity 0.92)
• Disadvantaged group members often internalize negative stereotypes and favor outgroups in implicit attitudes. (similarity 0.90)
• Racial group differences in self-esteem reverse the expected hierarchy (similarity 0.80)
• Ingroup ambivalence among disadvantaged groups rises as system-justification tendencies increase. (similarity 0.80)
• Allport already documented ambivalent and positive outgroup stereotypes (similarity 0.79)
• In-group bias mostly reflects positive self-regard, not hostility toward outsiders (similarity 0.79)
• Disadvantaged group members internalize the same stereotypes advantaged groups hold (similarity 0.78)