Stereotype content follows the segregation mechanism that structures inequality

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). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 677

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the paternalistic-vs-envious stereotype distinction from Fiske’s stereotype content model, and connects to the intimate-segregation analysis in the book’s own opening chapters on paternalism. — connects to: Understanding status mechanisms is a precondition for reducing inequality; Segregation’s core harm was discursive inferiorization, not separation itself — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1181; the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them”