{"id":1990,"date":"2009-10-14T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2014-03-06T04:53:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T04:53:04","slug":"the-effects-of-black-identity-on-candidate-evaluations-an-exploratory-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1990","title":{"rendered":"The Effects of Black Identity on Candidate Evaluations: An Exploratory Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0021934707309430\" target=\"_blank\">The Effects of Black Identity on Candidate Evaluations: An Exploratory Study<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jbs.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Black Studies<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jbs.sagepub.com\/content\/40\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 40, Number 2<\/a> (2009)<br \/>\npages 215-237<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0021934707309430\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0021934707309430<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uiswcmsweb.prod.lsu.edu\/hss\/aaas\/Faculty\/item35770.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jas M. Sullivan<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>Louisiana State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uiswcmsweb.prod.lsu.edu\/education\/Faculty_and_Staff_Directory\/item49037.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keena N. Arbuthnot<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Education<br \/>\n<em>Louisiana State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>\u2019s entrance into the 2008 presidential campaign has been warmly received by Whites, Blacks have been somewhat ambivalent. Some even have claimed that Obama is not &#8220;Black.&#8221; The case of Barack Obama brings to the forefront the prospect of intragroup identity differences that exist among Blacks and the potential importance of a candidate\u2019s racial background in elections. Consequently, the authors ask the following questions: (a) Does the racial background of a political candidate affect Black voters\u2019 support and evaluation of a candidate\u2019s personal attributes (i.e., trust, concern, strength, and qualification)? and (b) Focusing purely on the treatment groups separately (White, biracial, and Black candidates), does Black identity affect Blacks\u2019 support and evaluation of a candidate\u2019s personal attributes? \u00a0<strong>The experimental results of this exploratory study find race does make a difference on candidate support, and Black identity influences the way in which Black respondents perceive White, biracial, and Black candidates. <\/strong>As a result, these findings suggest that differences in how Blacks feel about a candidate will depend on the candidate\u2019s racial background, their own attitudes and beliefs about being Black, and where they fall on various demographic and political measures.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/jbs.sagepub.com\/cgi\/reprint\/40\/2\/215\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Effects of Black Identity on Candidate Evaluations: An Exploratory Study Journal of Black Studies Volume 40, Number 2 (2009) pages 215-237 DOI: 10.1177\/0021934707309430 Jas M. Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Political Science Louisiana State University Keena N. Arbuthnot, Associate Professor of Education Louisiana State University Although Barack Obama\u2019s entrance into the 2008 presidential campaign has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[426,17061,102,428,427],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-jas-m-sullivan","tag-jas-sullivan","tag-journal-of-black-studies","tag-keena-arbuthnot","tag-keena-n-arbuthnot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}