{"title":"Feeling a little uneasy: A comparative discourse analysis of White and BIPOC college students’ reflective writing about systemic racism","authors":"Brett Russell Coleman, Caitlyn Yantis","doi":"10.1111/josi.12612","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.12612","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This critical discourse analysis compares the ways in which White and BIPOC college students discuss their experiences of an educational intervention meant to promote better understanding of systemic racism. We analyzed reflective writing produced by 11 White psychology students from a private liberal arts college in the eastern United States and 17 BIPOC students from a Human Services program at a public university in the western United States. White students engaged in <i>whiteness discourse</i> that distanced themselves from the realities of systemic racism and/or relieved the cognitive dissonance associated with the self- and group-image threat related to learning about systemic racism. In so doing, they unwittingly upheld white supremacy. BIPOC students, in contrast, engaged an <i>antiracist discourse</i> that employed critiques of the social systems that produce systemic racism and destabilized dominant colorblind narratives, often by drawing on lived experience. From the Critical Race Theory perspective that the <i>centrality of lived experience</i> is a legitimate lens through which to analyze racial subordination, we discuss the importance of attending to the action orientation and constructed nature of discourse in antiracist education.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"80 2","pages":"473-495"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.12612","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140936595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sophie Trawalter, James N. Druckman, Kyshia Henderson
{"title":"Critical race theory and COVID-19 vaccination: An experimental test of interest convergence","authors":"Sophie Trawalter, James N. Druckman, Kyshia Henderson","doi":"10.1111/josi.12611","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.12611","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Critical Race Theory (CRT) offers crucial insights into the persistence of racism. The theory also identifies the conditions under which White Americans will support policies aimed at redressing racial inequities. According to the tenet of interest convergence, White Americans will support policies aimed at redressing racial inequities when it serves their interests to do so; that is, when their interests converge with those of Black people. Here, we provide an experimental test of interest convergence in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Consistent with interest convergence, we find that White support for race-conscious policies aimed at redressing COVID-19 inequities increased when policies were framed as benefiting White people (i.e., a benefits frame). White support decreased when policies were framed as only benefiting Black people and was unmoved by a frame that accentuated systemic racism. Further, the impact of the benefit frame was not moderated by racial attitudes or political ideology. The results offer a sobering reminder that racial progress does not necessarily reflect shifts in White people's prejudice and consciousness, but rather shifts in their interests.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"80 2","pages":"778-800"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.12611","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140832100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first primer for the QuantCrit-curious critical race theorist or psychologist: On intersectionality theory, interaction effects, and AN(C)OVA/regression models","authors":"Jose H. Vargas, J. Zak Peet","doi":"10.1111/josi.12604","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.12604","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Moderated general linear modeling (MGLM) is a highly popular statistical approach in the social sciences, as it allows analysts to examine the separate and interactive effects of 2+ variables on a numerically-measured outcome. Despite correspondences between MGLM and intersectionality theory, interdisciplinary cross-communication is rare. Quantitative research can be strengthened when vetted through a critical race theory (CRT) framework. Also, qualitative intersectionality work can be complemented with statistics. To promote greater appreciation and usage of MGLM in CRT-informed psychological research, it is argued that readers, reviewers, and editors should familiarize themselves with the basics of QuantCrit. Have all variables been accurately measured? Has the dataset been properly structured? Have all statistical assumptions been met? What data tables and figures are reported? How are the results interpreted? This primer addresses these questions while minimizing MGLM technicalities. After covering the historical context of QuantCrit, data from a houselessness dataset are examined to demonstrate the QuantCrit protocols. Limitations of MGLM, as well as QuantCrit-based guidelines for reporting MGLM results, are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"80 1","pages":"168-217"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.12604","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140593483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jordan G. Starck, Kyneshawau Hurd, Michael J. Perez, Christopher K. Marshburn
{"title":"Interest convergence and the maintenance of racial advantage: The case of diversity in higher education","authors":"Jordan G. Starck, Kyneshawau Hurd, Michael J. Perez, Christopher K. Marshburn","doi":"10.1111/josi.12606","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.12606","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One of the major tenets of Critical Race Theory, the <i>interest convergence hypothesis</i> postulates that policies promising improvements for Black Americans are enacted only to the extent they advance White Americans’ interests. We elaborate and update Bell's argument by demonstrating that current diversity commitments in higher education are another example of interest convergence. First, we present empirical and theoretical evidence that ubiquitous approaches to diversity serve the psychological interests of White Americans more than those of Black Americans. Second, we advance a systemic framework for how social psychological processes intersect with normative ideologies in the law and in universities’ operations to facilitate the prioritization of White over Black interests. In so doing, our goal is to illuminate the primacy of White identity and power as fundamental to shaping American society's collective embrace of diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"80 1","pages":"272-307"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140593193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phia S. Salter, Roxanne Moadel-Attie, Andrea L. Miller, Alaina Brenick, Courtney M. Bonam
{"title":"Focusing the critical race psychology lens: CRT and the psychological study of social issues","authors":"Phia S. Salter, Roxanne Moadel-Attie, Andrea L. Miller, Alaina Brenick, Courtney M. Bonam","doi":"10.1111/josi.12609","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.12609","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The years since George Floyd's murder in 2020 have been characterized by both a renewed attention to systemic racism and a backlash intended to silence conversations about race. Critical Race Theory (CRT), in particular, has become a larger part of the public discourse around race than ever before. Although CRT developed in the 1980s as a critical approach in legal studies and was incorporated into social psychology in the 1990s, psychology's engagement with CRT has been much more limited than that of other fields. In two installments, this special issue aims to (re)introduce psychological researchers to Critical Race Theory (CRT), to underscore CRT's importance and limitations in the context of psychological research, to feature novel applications and new directions in CRT, and to address the current political climate of opposition to discussions of CRT. The first installment looks inward to examine how psychology can more effectively advance racial equity within the field and the research we conduct by continuing to incorporate a CRT lens throughout higher education and research. The second installment looks outward to highlight psychological research that uses CRT frameworks to advance racial justice in society.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"80 1","pages":"7-17"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.12609","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140373395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disrupting neoliberal diversity discourse with critical race college transition stories","authors":"Giselle Laiduc, Ian Slattery, Rebecca Covarrubias","doi":"10.1111/josi.12600","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.12600","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The college transition can challenge students’ sense-making of diversity, race, and oppression. Yet prevailing neoliberal discourses touting the market value of diversity can thwart this potential by promoting color-evasive messaging that avoids reckoning with racism. Guided by Critical Race Theory, we explored incoming students’ sense-making of diversity (<i>n </i>= 421) after being exposed to either color-evasive transition stories or more critical stories that discussed intersecting experiences with oppression. Using discourse analysis, we observed that Black, Latinx, and Native students and their Asian and white counterparts reproduced common neoliberal logics emphasizing the educational benefits of diversity. However, critical stories reminded Black, Latinx, and Native students of the limits of diversity to change structures. For Asian and white students, critical stories elicited more aversive reactions and more endorsements of how diversity broadens equal access. Understanding students’ diversity discourses can inform how universities engage conversations about difference to counteract neoliberal talk that undermines racial justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"80 1","pages":"308-340"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.12600","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140376833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Korinthia D. Nicolai, Terrell R. Morton, Corina De La Torre, Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby, Alison C. Koenka
{"title":"Navigating growing pains: Tensions in integrating critical race theory in psychology and strategies for addressing them","authors":"Korinthia D. Nicolai, Terrell R. Morton, Corina De La Torre, Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby, Alison C. Koenka","doi":"10.1111/josi.12602","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.12602","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recently there has been an uptake in the call for research that explores race and racism within the context of psychology. Researchers can use Critical Race Theory (CRT) to do so. However, scholars within the field of psychology may confront growing pains when integrating psychology research with CRT due to their respective inquiry worldviews—postpositivism and critical—which result in several tensions pertaining to the framing of research and methods. These tensions may limit the uptake of CRT in psychology and may cause people to struggle to understand CRT. Therefore in this article, we describe (a) CRT and related frameworks, (b) tensions when integrating CRT into psychology, and (c) strategies to attenuate the tensions. Additionally, we highlight the importance of identity and the political choice of using CRT. It is critical for psychology researchers to challenge dominant postpositivist research inquiry worldviews and deconstruct what is considered “legitimate knowledge.” By doing so, we can (a) validate experiences and vast forms of knowledge that shape the reality of People of Color and our families, communities, and cultures and (b) challenge systems of oppression.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"80 1","pages":"18-52"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.12602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140377475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A raceless legal psychology in a system marked by race","authors":"Rubí M. Gonzales, Victoria C. Plaut","doi":"10.1111/josi.12605","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.12605","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the fact that evidence of racial inequality in the U.S. criminal legal system has become overwhelming, the field of legal psychology has largely ignored issues of race and systemic racism. Although legal psychology focuses on a system that has disproportionately affected certain racial groups, and much of the field questions the fairness of the system, its research seems to rarely take a critical approach to account for racial and systemic factors that may shape an individual's psychological experience. The purpose of this article is, therefore, to analyze the lack of attention to race and racism in legal psychology, document the extent to which the field has historically attended to issues of race and systemic racism, and provide best practices for future research to embrace a critical race legal psychology. To document inattention to race and systemic racism, we query, code, and analyze all articles published in two of legal psychology's most influential journals (<i>Law and Human Behavior</i> and <i>Psychology, Public Policy, and Law</i>), finding, indeed, a dearth of articles on these topics.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"80 1","pages":"80-99"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.12605","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140197338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brianna S. Richmond, Negin R. Toosi, Joseph D. Wellman, Clara L. Wilkins
{"title":"Ignorance of critical race theory predicts White Americans’ opposition to it","authors":"Brianna S. Richmond, Negin R. Toosi, Joseph D. Wellman, Clara L. Wilkins","doi":"10.1111/josi.12601","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.12601","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Acknowledging systemic racism, a key tenet of Critical Race Theory (CRT), may be threatening to many Americans but it can also reduce racial biases. However, anti-CRT legislation prohibits learning about racism, thus highlighting the mutually reinforcing relationship between systemic racism and the production of ignorance. We assessed White Americans’ knowledge about CRT through participant-generated definitions (Study 1, <i>N =</i> 199) and via a true/false questionnaire (Study 2, <i>N</i> = 194), and its relation to opposition to CRT. Opposition to CRT was associated with a less accurate understanding of CRT, even when controlling for political orientation. Content analyses revealed that opponents of CRT deny anti-Black racism, believe CRT harms Whites, and view discussing race as divisive. Based on these themes, we developed a meta-cognitive corrective intervention in Study 3 (<i>N</i> = 289). Participants who received corrective feedback after taking a multiple-choice test about CRT showed a larger decrease in their opposition to CRT than those in the control condition.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"80 1","pages":"240-271"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140181848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking critically about race bias and culpability perceptions of Latinxs in the criminal justice system","authors":"Cynthia Willis Esqueda, Kiley Gilbert","doi":"10.1111/josi.12603","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.12603","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Critical race theory (CRT) guides insight into structural and institutional discrimination for identifying causes of race disparities in the United States social and political systems. Disparities are pronounced in the criminal justice system (CJS) for Latinx people, and negative attitudes exist about those incarcerated. LatCrit theory promotes an examination of unique issues creating disparities for Latinx people. Given historical, negative stereotypes of Mexican Americans as a criminal type, even exonerees face the taint of criminalization, and this influences perceptions of them. Following LatCrit theory, we examined the relationship between negative Mexican American stereotypes and perceived internal and external culpability with mediation from defendant rights attitudes for a Mexican American exoneree. With data from a national, adult online sample (<i>N</i> = 120), negative stereotypes about Mexican Americans predicted internal culpability with partial mediation from defendant rights beliefs, but the relationship was not found for external culpability. Negative stereotypes were associated with beliefs in the Mexican American exoneree's inherent criminality. With a LatCrit approach, quantitative findings lend insight into the legal decision making process to produce bias. Results highlight the need for continued focus on Latinx people's unique experiences and for change in methods to improve post-carceral reintegration and eliminate structural and systemic race bias.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"80 2","pages":"740-760"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.12603","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140168779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}