White Americans’ racial behavior is now formally egalitarian though still marginally discriminatory.

Evidence

Third, Allport observed that Americans’ high official morality was inconsistent with their poor practice. That seems to me to have changed substantially. Compared to the immediate postwar period, White Americans’ behavior tends to be formally egalitarian (though discriminatory at the margins; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2197

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Most white Americans hold a racial status profile toward the middle, not the extremes. — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 41