Old-fashioned biological racism largely disappeared among US Whites by the 1990s

Evidence

The intrapsychic conflict described by Allport and Myrdal was represented at the time principally by “old-fashioned racism,” or “Jim Crow racism,” the racial ideology held by a majority of Whites in the US before the Second World War. It had three main tenets: (a) belief in the biological inferiority of African Americans; (b) support for formal discrimination against Blacks in many domains of life such as schools, public accommodations, and housing; and (c) racial segregation of Blacks in those domains, as well as in private domains such as marriage. … After the Second World War, support for that ideology began to wane in the North, and later, after the mid-1960s, gradually in the White South as well. Most of it was gone by the 1990s (Schuman, Steeh, Bobo, & Krysan, 1997). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2166

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines old-fashioned/Jim Crow racism’s three tenets, which the chapter’s later ‘modern racism’ contrast depends on.
• XREF: Sets the baseline disappearance that modern-racism scales were designed to detect — central to the vault’s prejudice measurement claims.