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Color-blind racial ideology and antiracist action
Author Info
Cook, Hether Renee, Cook
ORCID® Identifier
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2120-4462
Permalink:
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1473530397843381
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2016, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, Counseling Psychology.
Abstract
Much is yet unknown about Whites who take action for racial equity. This study investigated affective, ideological, and cognitive correlates of antiracist behavior using the recently developed antiracist behavior inventory. The study used cluster analysis to form groups of Whites according to psychosocial costs of racism, color-blind racial ideology, system justification beliefs, and social dominance orientation, and then determine differences in antiracist behavior between clusters. Cluster analysis revealed three types of Whites labeled The Status Quo, The Moderate, and The Beginning Antiracist. Cluster #1, The Status Quo, demonstrated the highest levels of CBRI, SJT, and SDO and the lowest levels of PCRW while Cluster #3, The Beginning Antiracist type endorsed the lowest levels of CBRI, SJT, and SDO, and the highest levels of PCRW. Cluster #2, The Moderate, were about average for the cluster on all variables. Significant differences were found between clusters on antiracist behaviors in a direction consistent with the literature. The Status Quo endorsed the lowest levels of ARBI while The Beginning Antiracist type endorsed the highest levels of antiracism in this sample. Findings indicated significant gender difference between groups where women were over-represented in all three groups due to sampling bias. However, Cluster 3, The Beginning Antiracist type, was comprised of about equal number of males and females. No age differences were noted. While many studies in the Whiteness literature have explored college samples, this study intentionally recruited community members.
Committee
Suzette Speight (Advisor)
Carla Goar (Committee Member)
Hewitt Amber (Committee Member)
Li Huey-Li (Committee Member)
Weigold Ingrid (Committee Member)
Pages
145 p.
Subject Headings
Counseling Psychology
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Psychology
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Social Research
Keywords
color-blindness
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race
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racism
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whiteness
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antiracism
;
colorblindness
;
anti-racism
;
system justification
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social dominance
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internalized dominance
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internalized oppression
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antiracist action
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antiracist type
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psychosocial costs of racism to whites
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Cook, Cook, H. R. (2016).
Color-blind racial ideology and antiracist action
[Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1473530397843381
APA Style (7th edition)
Cook, Cook, Hether.
Color-blind racial ideology and antiracist action.
2016. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1473530397843381.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Cook, Cook, Hether. "Color-blind racial ideology and antiracist action." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1473530397843381
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Color-blind racial ideology and antiracist action by Hether Renee Cook Cook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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