Racial mixing is framed as a realistic threat to group survival

Evidence

Realistic threats refer to threats to the existence, political power, economic power, or physical well-being of the in-group. In the following example of realistic threat, a person discusses the relationship between her sister and her sister’s non-white boyfriend: … They already started sleeping together “unprotected” and my biggest fear is my sister might taint my race sooner or later. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1048

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Allport’s and modern symbolic-threat theory on intergroup threat; also to prior material on how prejudice frames intermarriage/miscegenation as existential threat.
• QUESTION: Interesting that anti-miscegenation rhetoric here is coded as a ‘realistic’ rather than ‘symbolic’ threat — worth examining how threat-type coding interacts with race-based anxiety about reproduction.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1048