Perceived racial threat drives zero-sum fears that justify defensive aggression

Evidence

Perceived racial threat fuels fear of loss – of power, of resources, of competitiveness, of life itself – and their attendant antagonisms and aggressivities. … This sense of threat, almost invariably tinged with anxiety or exacerbated by paranoia upon racial mediation, tends to articulate selfwith social protection, no matter the cost. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 151

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bears on the threatened-privilege mechanism the reader is testing across identity axes; connects to racial-threat literature on group position. — connects to: Perceived racial-mixture threat restructured a group’s core character into defensive rigidity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1383; Perceived threat produces bounded racial change, support for principle but not cost — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3387; Perceived threat alone, not deprivation or group-interest beliefs, directly drives racial policy attitudes — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3374 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Threat-driven cognitive biases facilitate and justify intergroup violence #expands (0.80) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 380
• Perceived racial-mixture threat restructured a group’s core character into defensive rigidity #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1383
• Perceived threat produces bounded racial change, support for principle but not cost #qualifies (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3387
• Perceived threat alone, not deprivation or group-interest beliefs, directly drives racial policy attitudes #expands (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3374
• Zero-sum invasion anxieties are racially indexed even when unspoken #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1860