Subordinate groups often internalize dominant-group evaluations and derogate their own group

Evidence

However, decades of research into ethnic-group relations suggest that ethnocentrism among stratified groups is, or at least it has been, very much a one-way street. Milner (1975, 1981) and Giles and Powesland (1975) summarize a great deal of evidence that minority or subordinate group members—such as the American Blacks, the French Canadians, the New Zealand Maoris, or the South African Bantus—have frequently tended to derogate the in-group and display positive attitudes toward the dominant out-group. In other words, deprived groups are not always ethnocentric in the simple meaning of the term; they may, in fact, be positively oriented toward the depriving out-group. Data of this kind are not consistent with a simple application of RCT. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2691

Categorization

• XREF: The subordinate-group self-derogation data is the psychological substrate of what Spivak’s strategic essentialism and Foucault’s counter-history try to undo — oppressed groups must first reclaim positive in-group identity before any empowered essentialist claim is even collectible. — connects to: Subordinate groups historically reversed self-derogation into positive in-group identity and militancy — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 2695; Subordinates sometimes favor dominant groups over their own ingroups — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3209; Subordinate groups share the dominant status ranking of their own subordination — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3252 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Subordinates sometimes favor dominant groups over their own ingroups #corroborates (0.95) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3209
• Subordinate groups share the dominant status ranking of their own subordination #corroborates (0.95) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3252
• Disadvantaged group members internalize the same stereotypes advantaged groups hold #corroborates (0.95) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1401
• Subordinate groups strategically deploy difference to resist dominant control and revalue themselves #contradicts (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 115
• Ideological hegemony operates when subordinates internalize the dominant group’s justifications of inequality #expands (0.85)