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Database: PsycINFO
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Racism equals power plus prejudice: A social psychological equation for racial oppression.
Operario, Don; Fiske, Susan T.
Eberhardt, Jennifer Lynn (Ed); Fiske, Susan T. (Ed). (1998). Confronting racism: The problem and the response (pp. 33-53). Thousand Oaks, CA, US: Sage Publications, Inc, xiii, 352 pp.

Abstract

  1. This chapter examines the role of power in sustaining all aspects of racism. Five core ideas guide this argument: (a) Societal power directs the construction of racial categories; (b) cognitive consequences of racial categories, such as stereotyping, underlie people's perception that these arbitrary categories are real and meaningful; (c) affective and evaluative consequences of racial categories, such as in-group favoritism, underlie people's biases against different categories; (d) power plus prejudice transforms universal psychological processes into asymmetrical societal processes; and, thus, (e) racism is a personal and societal challenge.
    The discussion draws most heavily from basic social psychology research, but also briefly reviews some important messages from other disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, and history. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)