White racial ideology supports formal equality while opposing burdensome change

Evidence

At the beginning of this chapter I suggested that a core problem touched on in a broad range of social-psychologically oriented research on race is the problem of resistance to more profound forms of racial change. A loosely coherent set of attitudes and beliefs that, among other things, attributes continuing patterns of black-white inequality to the dispositional shortcomings of blacks themselves and the otherwise fair operation of the economic and political system has developed and now characterizes much of the white population. I labeled this nascent set of beliefs an ideology of bounded racial change because although it involves support for the extension of basic citizenship rights to blacks the ideology also involves vigorous opposition to change that might impose substantial burdens on whites. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3436

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘ideology of bounded racial change’ as a precise construct — formal citizenship rights embraced, change imposing burdens on whites resisted.
• XREF: connects to: Whites sustain equality-in-principle while delegitimizing redistributive measures as a coherent ideology — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3339; White racial ideology supports basic rights but opposes change that burdens whites — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3436; Whites broadly endorse racial equality in principle yet reject concrete equality policies — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2626 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• White racial ideology supports basic rights but opposes change that burdens whites #corroborates (0.98) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3436
• Whites support racial equality in principle but resist the policies implementing it #corroborates (0.97) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3332
• Whites broadly endorse racial equality in principle yet reject concrete equality policies #corroborates (0.95) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2626
• Whites support racial equality in principle far more than they support policies implementing it. #corroborates (0.94)
• Whites resist equality while constrained by antidiscrimination norms toward bounded change #expands (0.92) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3358
• White objections to racial change defend group privilege rather than prejudice #expands (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3362
• Whites’ support for racial equality principles shrank once implementation threatened their own position #expands (0.85)
• Symbolic racism outweighs egalitarian beliefs in shaping White racial policy views #qualifies (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3647
• The White Racial Frame makes anti-non-White discrimination seem consistent with American values #expands (0.78) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 378
• Racial attitudes, not ideology or values, drive whites’ opposition to race-targeted policies #qualifies (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3735