Racism can operate through claims of developmental inferiority rather than fixed biological inferiority

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). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2166 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racism need not presume permanent inferiority, only exclusion from privilege and protection — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 64; Racism depends logically on the prior devaluation of animals. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 576; Race is a culturally invented discursive category used to inferiorize groups. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1106 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Old-fashioned racism combined biological inferiority beliefs, formal discrimination, and segregation #complicates (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2166