A hidden bias against interracial couples |
A hidden bias against interracial couples
The Seattle Times
2016-09-23
Allison Skinner, Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
University of Washington
Although most white Americans self-report little to no racial bias against black people, they tend to show robust implicit, or unconscious, biases.
NEXT year marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found laws banning interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. Although polls indicate that acceptance of interracial marriage has increased dramatically since then, incidents of prejudice and violence against interracial couples continue.
In April, a Mississippi landlord evicted a family after he found out the couple was interracial. Then in August, a man stabbed an interracial couple in Olympia after seeing them kiss in public.
As a social psychologist, I wondered if these types of incidents are aberrations or indications of a persistent underlying bias against interracial couples.
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