Cultures approve of extra-effort coping among prejudice targets over other responses

Evidence

Of the numerous ways in which targets of prejudice can cope, Allport believed that striving to overcome the negative implications of stigma is the response most highly approved in our culture. He wrote, “To redouble one’s efforts is a healthy response to an obstacle” (1954/1979, p. 156). He proposed that in every minority group, some individuals perceive their devalued status as a handicap to be surmounted by extra effort rather than as an inevitable determinant of their fate. In response to the threat of prejudice, these individuals work harder than their competitors to run an equal race. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 962

Categorization

• XREF: Allport’s approving the ‘healthy’ response connects to the reader’s interest in small decorums and morally freighted coping choices — effort-as-virtue echoes the ‘complaints about immodesty’ moralizing frame. — connects to: Multicultural conviviality requires deep emotional labor rather than terminating relationships over offensive speech — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 85; Prejudiced targets cope via assimilation, resistance, or pluralism — Jeff Greenberg and Spee Kosloff, Terror Management Theory: Implications…, 75