Effects of belief versus experiential discrimination on race-based linked fate. (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lu, Fan; Jones, Bradford
• Is Part Of: Politics, groups, and identities. Volume 7:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 615
• Page End: 624
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Linked fate -- discrimination -- stigmatized outgroups -- commonality; Identity (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Political psychology -- Periodicals; Sex -- Periodicals; Ethnicity -- Periodicals; Ethnicity; Identity (Psychology); Political psychology; Sex; Periodicals; 320
• DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2019.1638804
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2156-5503

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Since Michael Dawson first put forward the theory that being targets of racial discrimination increases perceptions of linked fate amongst African Americans, applications of his theory to non-Black and contemporary African Americans have arrived at mixed findings. These inconsistencies may be attributed to different conceptualizations of discrimination and a partiality for personal experiences rather than beliefs about discrimination. Using the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey, we test the argument both beliefs and experiences with discrimination can affect racial attitudes by comparing how the relationship between beliefs/experiential discrimination and race-based linked fate differs across Black, Latino, Asian, and White Americans. The findings suggest even if non-Whites do not personally experience discrimination, they have beliefs about discrimination towards their racial group, and these beliefs are equally important predictors of their sense of race-based linked fate.