Racialized nonracial issues can prime prejudice without overt racism.

Evidence

But overtly racist appeals may not be necessary to prime racial prejudice if ostensibly nonracial issues have been racialized, as “welfare” and crime have been (Gilens, 1999; Mendelberg, 2001). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2173

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how code words replace slurs as the effective carriers of contemporary prejudice — a study of ‘welfare queen,’ ‘inner city,’ and ‘urban’ as signaling systems.
• XREF: Connects to the diamond-trade work on signaling where cheap formalities stand in for direct utterance. — connects to: Cross-racial amity can coexist with everyday racism without negating it. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 59