Racial Attitudes in City, Neighborhood, and Situational Contexts

Monica McDermott
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Monica McDermott: Stanford University

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2011, vol. 634, issue 1, 153-173

Abstract: Multiple social contexts have been shown to affect racial attitudes both positively and negatively when considered at different levels. In this article, context is simultaneously considered at three different levels: the metropolitan area, the census block group, and the interview situation (as measured by race of interviewer/race of respondent matching). Significant effects can be classified into three categories: the effects of the racial composition of the city, the effects of the racial composition of the neighborhood, and the effects of a “differentrace†interviewer. Neighborhood income and race of interviewer effects are direct; by contrast, racial composition effects are typically cross-level interaction effects. This indicates that the modeling of cross-level interactions is essential for future studies of the effects of racial composition on attitudes.

Keywords: racial attitudes; context; stereotypes; prejudice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716210388388

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