Are Black state legislators more responsive to emails associated with the NAACP versus BLM? A field experiment on Black intragroup politics

Q1 Social Sciences

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI:10.1017/rep.2021.13

Jeron Fenton, LaFleur Stephens-Dougan

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Abstract

Abstract We fielded an experiment on a sample of approximately 400 Black state legislators to test whether they would be more responsive to an email that mentioned the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) relative to an email that mentioned Black Lives Matter (BLM). The experiment tested Cohen's theory of secondary marginalization (1999), whereby relatively advantaged members of a marginalized group regulate the behavior, attitudes, and access to resources of less advantaged members of the group. We expected that Black legislators would be less responsive to an email that referenced BLM, an organization that is associated with more marginalized members of the Black community. Contrary to our hypothesis, Black legislators were as responsive to emails referencing inspiration from BLM as they were to emails referencing inspiration from the NAACP. Thus, we do not find any evidence of intragroup discrimination by Black state legislators. To our knowledge, this is the first field experiment to test Cohen's theory of secondary marginalization.1

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黑人州议员对NAACP和BLM相关的电子邮件的反应是否更积极?黑人群体内部政治的实地实验

我们对大约400名黑人州议员进行了一项实验，以测试他们是否会对提到全国有色人种协进会(NAACP)的电子邮件做出更积极的回应，而不是提到“黑人的命也是命”(BLM)的电子邮件。该实验验证了科恩的二次边缘化理论(1999)，即边缘化群体中相对有利的成员调节群体中较不利成员的行为、态度和获取资源的途径。我们原以为，黑人立法者不会对提到BLM的电子邮件做出太大反应，因为BLM是一个与黑人社区更边缘化的成员有联系的组织。与我们的假设相反，黑人立法者对参考BLM灵感的电子邮件的反应与他们对参考NAACP灵感的电子邮件的反应一样。因此，我们没有发现黑人州议员群体内歧视的任何证据。据我们所知，这是第一次实地实验来检验科恩的二次边缘化理论

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Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics Social Sciences-Anthropology

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