Derogatory labels predict how immigrants appear in children’s literature

Evidence

More recently, Mullen (2004) showed that the use of ethnophaulisms towards ethnic immigrant groups in the US also predicted a more subtle form of exclusion, the portrayal of ethnic immigrants to children. For example, members of ethnic immigrant outgroups that were cognitively represented with less complex (and, to a lesser degree, more negative) ethnophaulisms were less frequently present in children’s literature, described more in terms of physical appearance than in terms of personal traits, and portrayed with smaller heads and with lower verbal complexity. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1270 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Children’s mission columns encoded different kinship frames for white and black authors — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 555; Simpler ethnic slurs predict immigrant segregation and hazardous-work assignments; Derogatory labels predict degrading portrayals of minorities in children’s books — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1270 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Derogatory labels predict degrading portrayals of minorities in children’s books #corroborates (0.93) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1270