Black Lives Matter for Whites’ Racial Prejudice: Assessing the Role of Social Movements in Shaping Racial Attitudes in the United States
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Black Lives Matter (BLM) is one of the most prominent contemporary social movements in the United States. Whether the BLM movement has led to racial attitude liberalization remains an open question. I evaluate this question using data on over 140,000 survey respondents combined with locational data on BLM protests in 2014 following the police killing of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Results from a difference-in-differences identification strategy provide evidence indicating that the BLM movement was successful in reducing whites’ racial prejudice. I find that these effects follow an age gradient where young whites are liberalized by protests while older whites are not. Results from this study indicate that protests can be successful drivers of attitude change.
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Whites became moderately less racially resentful towards Blacks as a result of BLM protests, although results were heterogeneous with respect to age.
“Specifically, Whites became moderately less racially resentful towards Blacks as a result of BLM protests, although these results were heterogeneous with respect to age (Mazumder 2019).”
From BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS, FATAL POLICE INTERACTIONS, AND CRIME (2021) · cites this paper as Mazumder 2019
The BLM protests decreased racial resentment towards Blacks.
“and that the BLM protests decreased racial resentment towards Blacks (Mazumder 2019).”
From BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS, FATAL POLICE INTERACTIONS, AND CRIME (2021) · cites this paper as Mazumder 2019
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- Authors
- Mazumder, S.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mazumder, Soumyajit
- ORCID
- Mazumder, Soumyajit
- Publisher
- Center for Open Science
- Published
- 2019-05-06
- OpenAlex
- W4253751645
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- 32
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
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- SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Keywords
- Black Lives Matter, racial prejudice, racial attitudes, social movements, attitude change, age differences, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, police killings
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