Negative overall stereotypes block group access to desirable social roles.

Evidence

The role-incongruity analysis of prejudice encompasses Allport’s emphasis on negative attitudes toward groups by acknowledging that the overall evaluative content of a group’s stereotype can restrict the social roles for which group members are thought to be qualified. Social roles that offer prestige, status, income, love, and other outcomes will require many positive attributes; consequently, group stereotypes that are especially negative overall hinder access to a wide range of desirable roles because role-relevant positive attributes are absent from the stereotype. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 213

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social privilege blocks access to knowledge one is unequipped to understand. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 37; Stereotypes legitimize existing social hierarchy even against people’s own interests — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 43