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Race, Ethnicity and Politics Workshop: Sergio Garcia-Rios (Cornell University)

Race, Ethnicity and Politics Flyer
Friday, November 20, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Sergio Garcia-Rios
Race, Ethnicity and Politics

Talk title: Moving Beyond the White-Black Binary: Investigating Latino Ethno-racial Resentment

Summary: Existent scholarship has established that racial resentment is a strong driver of anti-Black attitudes and policies associated with African Americans. The scale has been adopted by hundreds of researchers and has also been used to account for prejudice towards other ethnoracial minorities yielding mixed results. In this project, we develop a theory of Latino ethno-racial resentment (LERR) where we aim to identify and measure a prejudice-oriented belief system that individuals might have toward Latinos. Our theory identifies several themes that reflect a consistent logic about the status of Latinos in the U.S. These three themes, we argue, are at the core of an anti-Latino belief system that drives racial prejudice toward this group and policies associated with or targeted toward Latinos. We develop a novel measure of LERR comprised of 9 unique items that tap into this prejudice. We test these unique items in two studies of White and Black respondents in 2016 and 2019. This novel approach and new measure provide a needed contribution to broaden our understanding of racial attitudes and existent theories to better understand how prejudice shapes political attitudes beyond a White and Black dichotomy.