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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: 72-30592 AUTHOR: Jacobson, Cardell K.


TITLE: Resistance to affirmative action: Self-interest or
racism?

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1985
JOURNAL: Journal-of-Conflict-Resolution; 1985 Jun Vol 29(2)
306-329

ABSTRACT: Examined racial threat or self-interest, new
symbolic racism, and old-fashioned racism as predictors of
attitudes about affirmative action programs. Data from a
national survey conducted in the late fall of 1978 for the
National Conference of Christians and Jews included
attitudinal responses from 1,584 Whites. The dependent
variable was response to various affirmative action
programs, the independent variables included items used to
measure symbolic racism and self-interest, and the control
variables included a Black stereotype scale and a tolerance
of interpersonal intimacy scale. Self-interest, new
symbolic racism, and old-fashioned racism were all found to
be related to attitudes about affirmative action programs
and remained so when a variety of control variables were
included in the regression analyses. The New Racism scale
was clearly the best predictor of attitudes about
affirmative action programs but had many underpinnings from
traditional sources of racism. Possible reasons for the
effect of self-interest on attitudes about affirmative
action programs that had not been related to racial
attitudes in earlier studies are discussed. (20 ref)
(PsycLIT Database Copyright 1985 American Psychological
Assn, all rights reserved)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: RACIAL-AND-ETHNIC-ATTITUDES; AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION; RACISM-; WHITES-; ADULTHOOD-


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