The value gap shapes white and black attitudes alike

Evidence

My hometown is no less American than his, yet Ryan’s American Idea cannot quite countenance the existence of it. His view of the American Idea is unsullied by our racial history and practices; it is set apart from how we actually live our lives. (He even ignores the fact that members of his own community formed a Ku Klux Klan chapter.) And when I say we, I don’t just mean African Americans. The attitudes of Ryan and his white neighbors in Janesville are just as surely shaped by the value gap as are those of my black neighbors in Moss Point. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 90

Categorization

• XREF: Shows whites also live determined by the racial structure — echoes lit that treats whites as racialized subjects, incl. Thandeka and Robin DiAngelo’s later work. — connects to: Racial attitudes explain more unique variance than nonracial values do; Black opposition to interracial marriage reflects shared valuation of whiteness, not antiracism