Spatial versus social segregation predicts whether stereotypes stay paternalistic or turn negative

Evidence

A comparison of the stereotypes of women and Blacks in late twentiethcentury America illustrates this dynamic. The former are still paternalistic (due to social, rather than spatial, segregation of the sexes), whereas the latter have shifted away from paternalism (as Blacks have become spatially segregated from Whites). As a result, women are more likely to have positive, communal traits categorically attributed to them (with little dissent from women), while Whites’ stereotypes about Blacks are both more negative (focusing on their alleged deficits in agentic traits) and more probabilistic, with significant dissent from Blacks ( Jackman, 1994). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 677

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to contact-theory divergence: proximity without equal-status contact yields different stereotype structure than physical separation.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 677