Journal
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 593-602Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1948550620930546
Keywords
racial categorization; Middle Eastern; White
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- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
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Despite being legally classified as White, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Americans face high levels of discrimination, indicating that low social status may prevent them from accessing the White racial category. This research explores how the perceived Whiteness of MENA Americans influences support for discriminatory policies, as well as how their social status affects their rated Whiteness.
Despite legal classification as White, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Americans experience high levels of discrimination, suggesting low social status precludes them from accessing the White racial category. After first demonstrating that the rated Whiteness of MENA Americans influences support for discriminatory policies (Study 1), the present research explores ratings and perceptions of Whiteness of MENA Americans by demonstrating how MENA ethnicities shift racial categorization of prototypically White and racially ambiguous targets (Studies 2-4), and how MENA Americans' social status influences rated Whiteness (Study 5). As few studies have explored the relative Whiteness of different ethnicities in the United States despite the fluid history of the White racial category, the present studies have implications for the processes that inform White categorization and lay categorizations of MENA Americans.
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