Whites often deny external causes for Black disadvantage without antipathy

Evidence

Research on subtle, modern prejudices began with recognition of a change over time in the attitudes that many Whites held toward Blacks in the United States. Representative national surveys documented a dramatic change from endorsement of racial segregation, discrimination, and the innate inferiority of Blacks to rejection of these practices and ideas (see Sears, ch. 21 this volume). However, Whites nonetheless often endorse beliefs denying that Blacks’ social and economic problems can be ascribed to external factors such as job discrimination, and ascribe them, implicitly or explicitly, to internal factors such as lack of motivation. Although such ideas have unfavorable implications for disadvantaged groups, they do not necessarily imply a generalized antipathy. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 181

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to existing vault claims on contact theory and the Allport antipathy definition; the modern-symbolic racism shift reframes what ‘prejudice’ even is before contact effects are assessed.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 181