Subordinate groups often favor their oppressors rather than showing ethnocentrism

Evidence

Deference or out-group favoritism can be regarded as a special case of asymmetrical ingroup bias, and can be said to occur when the degree of asymmetrical ingroup favoritism is so strong that subordinates actually favor dominants over their own ingroups. A well known example of such out-group favoritism can be found in the “Uncle Toming” behavior of certain Afro-Americans towards Euro-Americans (e.g., Deane, 1968). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3209 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Given the embedded nature of racial processes in the contemporary environment, it is unsurprising that subordinate groups may invoke difference to mystify, to deny knowledge of themselves to the dominant groups, to confuse and neutralize those who attempt to control or “help” them, or to reduce them to research objects. They may use difference to stress their own separateness, and to authorize their own representations. They may seek to legitimize their own definitions of cultural difference, including those against others from within their own collectivity. … This can lead at times, as we shall see later, to a strange convergence in the language of the racist right and of black or ethnic nationalists, as both infuse the racial or ethnic category with essentialist, and supposedly naturally inherited, characteristics. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 115 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Quiescent subordinate groups show less ethnocentrism until questioning their low-status identity reignites resource conflict. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 2698; A group can move from oppressed to oppressor by changing its racial assignment — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 31; Oppressed groups internalize dominant categories and police their own members to gain acceptance — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 717 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Subordinates sometimes favor dominant groups over their own ingroups #corroborates (0.97) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3209
• Subordinate groups strategically deploy difference to resist dominant control and revalue themselves #complicates (0.84) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 115
• Subordinate groups can challenge hegemony by invoking the dominant group’s own professed values #complicates (0.80)
• Racist ideologies both oppress subordinated groups and can be inverted into resistance #complicates (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 638
• Group cohesiveness correlates weakly with ethnocentrism despite correlating with authoritarianism #complicates (0.71) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1100