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Ethnic Consciousness and Its Relationship to Conservatism and Blame Among African Americans 1
Author(s) -
Brown Lisa M.,
Johnson Susan D.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb00121.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , consciousness , blame , conservatism , politics , white (mutation) , social psychology , psychology , political action , political consciousness , sociology , political science , anthropology , law , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , gene
Ethnic consciousness is “a set of political beliefs and action orientations arising out of the awareness of similarity” (Gurin, Miller, & Gurin, 1980, p. 30). We suggest that these beliefs relate to political values and views among African Americans. Correlational data revealed that ethnic consciousness is negatively correlated with conservative values. Experimental data revealed that students high in ethnic consciousness blamed a White firm for the termination of an African American employee more than a Black firm for terminating a European American employee. Those low in ethnic consciousness did not discriminate between the Black firm versus the White firm. Consciousness may operate as a means of connecting ethnic identity and political views.