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PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 215-218Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1745691611406922
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racism; zero-sum game; bias; affirmative action
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Although some have heralded recent political and cultural developments as signaling the arrival of a postracial era in America, several legal and social controversies regarding reverse racism highlight Whites' increasing concern about anti-White bias. We show that this emerging belief reflects Whites' view of racism as a zero-sum game, such that decreases in perceived bias against Blacks over the past six decades are associated with increases in perceived bias against Whites-a relationship not observed in Blacks' perceptions. Moreover, these changes in Whites' conceptions of racism are extreme enough that Whites have now come to view anti-White bias as a bigger societal problem than anti-Black bias.
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