Longstanding antiblack socialization persists despite formal legal equality

Evidence

Race relations in the United States have had a long history, but one that is marked by significant discontinuities over time. The period of slavery was followed by the brief but radically different window of Reconstruction. The Jim Crow system that developed over the following century legalized racial segregation and discrimination, especially but not exclusively in the South. The civil rights revolution effectively ended that two-caste system of race relations, replacing it with a universal system of formal legal equality. Nevertheless, considerable racial inequality remains in many areas of the society, such as in income, wealth, educational attainment, health, crime, and so forth. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3593 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Antiblack predispositions persist through slow socialization change — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3599; Racism persists in subtle paternalistic forms despite legal suppression of hostile expression — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 203; Racial inequality persists in new symbolic forms that defend privileged group positions — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3421 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• US racial history moved through abrupt regime shifts toward formal legal equality #complicates (0.74) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3593