Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall — Manifold Threats to White Identity and Their Political Effects on White Partisans

18 published claims from this book.

• Challenges to White meritocratic advantage strengthen rather than weaken White racial identity.
• Countervailing information can blunt the downstream political influence of a catalyzed White identity.
• Demographic minority status does not entail political weakness
• Distinct target threat types can be experimentally manipulated via news briefs
• Distinct threat types can push White identity toward rather than against outgroups.
• Identity threats vary in whether they trigger political mobilization or outgroup hostility.
• Morality threat dilutes White identity strength and reduces outgroup hostility, unlike power threat.
• Multiple distinct threat types can be experimentally isolated and compared
• Power, distinctiveness, and meritocratic threats may share status loss as a common cause.
• Pre-registered stratified experiments can isolate threat-type effects on identity
• Prior research disagrees over which partisan camp White identity threats mobilize most
• Threat treatments shift policy views chiefly through increased white identity, not directly.
• White Democrats may react more strongly than Republicans to racial identity threats.
• White identity correlates consistently but weakly with racial resentment over three election cycles
• White identity threats split between ingroup-centered decline and outgroup-centered power
• White partisans differ sharply on identity strength but barely on partisan intensity
• Whiteness historically conferred exclusive ownership of the American category through ingroup projection
• Zero-sum political systems fuse ingroup love with outgroup opposition