Stigmatized individuals carry collective racial history as present situational context

Evidence

Targets of racism live daily with the possibility of threat, bias, denigration, and diminished opportunity. Individual and collective histories of targets are psychologically available at any given moment, and thus are part of the situation that influences behavior and forms the basis of the Universal Context of Racism Model (UCR; Jones, 2003). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1080

Categorization

• XREF: Fits with stereotype threat research showing ambient cues shift performance; and with the earlier chapter’s framework on prejudice targets. — connects to: the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them”; the MOC “The False Compass: How Racial Categories Reorder Bodies, Minds, and the Self”