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Examinations of Core Concepts and Processes Is It Really Racism?: The Origins of White American Opposition to Race-Targeted Policies

Examinations of Core Concepts and Processes Is It Really Racism?: The Origins of White American... IS IT REALLY RACISM? THE ORIGINS OF WHITE AMERICANS’ OPPOSITION TO RACE-TARGETED POLICIES DAVID O. SEARS COLETTE VAN LAAR MARY CARRILLO RICK KOSTERMAN Race relations in the United States have had a long history, but one that is marked by significant discontinuities over time. The period of slavery was followed by the brief but radically different window of Reconstruc- tion. The Jim Crow system that developed over the following century legalized racial segregation and discrimination, especially but not exclu- sively in the South. The civil rights revolution effectively ended that two- caste system of race relations, replacing it with a universal system of for- mal legal equality. Nevertheless, considerable racial inequality remains in many areas of the society, such as in income, wealth, educational attain- ment, health, crime, and so forth. The demise of Jim Crow was accompanied by a sharp decline in the prevalence of its supporting belief system. This has sometimes been de- scribed as ‘‘old-fashioned racism,’’ incorporating both a biologically based theory of African racial inferiority and support for racial segregation and formal racial discrimination (McConahay 1986). Old-fashioned rac- ism has now largely been replaced by general support for the abstract principle of racial equality (Schuman, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Opinion Quarterly Oxford University Press

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IS IT REALLY RACISM? THE ORIGINS OF WHITE AMERICANS’ OPPOSITION TO RACE-TARGETED POLICIES DAVID O. SEARS COLETTE VAN LAAR MARY CARRILLO RICK KOSTERMAN Race relations in the United States have had a long history, but one that is marked by significant discontinuities over time. The period of slavery was followed by the brief but radically different window of Reconstruc- tion. The Jim Crow system that developed over the following century legalized racial segregation and discrimination, especially but not exclu- sively in the South. The civil rights revolution effectively ended that two- caste system of race relations, replacing it with a universal system of for- mal legal equality. Nevertheless, considerable racial inequality remains in many areas of the society, such as in income, wealth, educational attain- ment, health, crime, and so forth. The demise of Jim Crow was accompanied by a sharp decline in the prevalence of its supporting belief system. This has sometimes been de- scribed as ‘‘old-fashioned racism,’’ incorporating both a biologically based theory of African racial inferiority and support for racial segregation and formal racial discrimination (McConahay 1986). Old-fashioned rac- ism has now largely been replaced by general support for the abstract principle of racial equality (Schuman,

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Public Opinion Quarterly – Oxford University Press

Published: May 1, 1997

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