Derogatory labels toward immigrants predict their social and economic exclusion

Evidence

Also supportive of Allport’s analysis, the current evidence indicates that antilocutions can promote exclusion. In the first effort to explicitly examine the relationship between exclusion and ethnic labels, Mullen and Rice (2003) showed that the use of ethnophaulisms towards ethnic immigrant outgroups in the US did indeed predict the exclusion of those outgroups from the host American society. Ethnic immigrant groups that were referred to with less complex (and, to a lesser degree, more negative) ethnophaulisms were less likely to marry native-born Americans, more likely to be segregated into ethnic neighborhoods, and more likely to be deemed suitable for hazardous work. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1270

In the first effort to explicitly examine the relationship between exclusion and ethnic labels, Mullen and Rice (2003) showed that the use of ethnophaulisms towards ethnic immigrant outgroups in the US did indeed predict the exclusion of those outgroups from the host American society. Ethnic immigrant groups that were referred to with less complex (and, to a lesser degree, more negative) ethnophaulisms were less likely to marry native-born Americans, more likely to be segregated into ethnic neighborhoods, and more likely to be deemed suitable for hazardous work. 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. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1270

Categorization

• DEFINE: Ethnophaulism is the technical term for derogatory ethnic labels; this passage demonstrates its concrete predictive use.
• ADDENDUM: Connects to the mechanisms by which group labels precede and license harm against outgroups, similar to dress-based signaling of outgroup status in the immodesty panics essay.
• QUESTION: What does ‘less complex’ ethnophaulism mean operationally? The complexity metric and its coding is worth chasing.
• SEED: An essay angle: slurs as cognitive shorthand — how the lexical complexity of a group’s slur predicts real exclusion outcomes, from intermarriage to children’s literature.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1270; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1270