Classic Jim Crow racism mostly vanished from White America by the 1990s.

Evidence

The intrapsychic conflict described by Allport and Myrdal was represented at the time principally by “old-fashioned racism,” or “Jim Crow racism,” the racial ideology held by a majority of Whites in the US before the Second World War. It had three main tenets: (a) belief in the biological inferiority of African Americans; (b) support for formal discrimination against Blacks in many domains of life such as schools, public accommodations, and housing; and (c) racial segregation of Blacks in those domains, as well as in private domains such as marriage. After the Second World War, support for that ideology began to wane in the North, and later, after the mid-1960s, gradually in the White South as well. Most of it was gone by the 1990s (Schuman, Steeh, Bobo, & Krysan, 1997). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2166

Categorization

• DEFINE: Provides a crisp three-tenet definition of old-fashioned Jim Crow racism as the historical baseline against which ‘new’ prejudice forms are measured.