Ignored Racism

White Animus Toward Latinos

AvMark D. Ramirez,David A. M. Peterson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Although Latinos are now the largest non-majority group in the United States, existing research on white attitudes toward Latinos has focused almost exclusively on attitudes toward immigration. This book changes that. It argues that such accounts fundamentally underestimate the political power of whites' animus toward Latinos and thus miss how conflict extends well beyond immigration to issues such as voting rights, criminal punishment, policing, and which candidates to support. Providing historical and cultural context and drawing on rich survey and experimental evidence, the authors show that Latino racism-ethnicism is a coherent belief system about Latinos that is conceptually and empirically distinct from other forms of out-group hostility, and from partisanship and ideology. Moreover, animus toward Latinos has become a powerful force in contemporary American politics, shaping white public opinion in elections and across a number of important issue areas - and resulting in policies that harm Latinos disproportionately.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-25
Mått:156 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108495325

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Mark D. Ramirez is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. His research has been funded by the Ford Foundation. He is the recipient of the 2018 Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Award from the American Political Science Association. David A. M. Peterson is Professor and Whitaker-Lindgren Faculty Fellow in Political Science at Iowa State University. He has co-authored two books: Mandate Politics (2007) and Religious Institutions and Minor Parties in the United States (1999). He served as the editor of Political Behavior from 2015–2018. His work has been supported multiple times by the National Science Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

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'Ramirez and Peterson have given me a lot to think about. There was a time we all assumed that anti-Latino sentiment was a shadow of the much more virulent anti-black racism but could be understood and studied on the same terms. These authors suggest that we need to reconceptualize anti-Latino biases and their policy implications as a distinct phenomenon, rooted in and exacerbated by the historical development of the population and the institutions created to disadvantage them. This work - its conclusions, and its implications - is a must-read for anyone seriously trying to grapple with understanding how, in 2020, 10,000 children can be locked in cages with the tacit approval of the majority of the American people.' Gary M. Segura, Professor and Dean, University of California, Los Angeles

Innehållsförteckning

1. Racism ignored; 2. The racialization of Latinos; 3. The measurement of Latina/o racism/ethnicism; 4. Why white America opposes immigration; 5. Attitudes about punishment and policing; 6. Why whites favor restrictive voting laws; 7. The electoral implications of Latina/o racism/ethnicism; 8. Conclusion.