{"id":27784,"date":"2013-01-23T05:10:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T05:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27784"},"modified":"2013-01-23T05:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T05:10:39","slug":"the-ironic-consequences-of-obama%e2%80%99s-election-decreased-support-for-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27784","title":{"rendered":"The ironic consequences of Obama\u2019s election: Decreased support for social justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jesp.2009.01.006\" target=\"_blank\">The ironic consequences of Obama\u2019s election: Decreased support for social justice<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/journal-of-experimental-social-psychology\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Experimental Social Psychology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/00221031\/45\/3\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 45, Issue 3<\/a> (May 2009)<br \/>\npages 556\u2013559<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jesp.2009.01.006\" target=\"_blank\">10.1016\/j.jesp.2009.01.006<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/silab\/c_kaiser.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cheryl R. Kaiser<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:drurybj@u.washington.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin J. Drury<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/silab\/k_spalding.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry E. Spalding<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/scheryan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sapna Cheryan<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tulane.edu\/sse\/psyc\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/obrien.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Laurie T. O\u2019Brien<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do Americans think that, because of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> election, affirmative action and other policies that address racial injustice are no longer necessary? In this study, we examined this question by assessing participants\u2019 perceptions of racial progress and support for remedying racial injustice both prior to and after Barack Obama\u2019s presidential victory. Following the election, participants increased their perception that racism is less of a problem in the US today than in times past. They also expressed less support for policies designed to address racial inequality. Given the continued prevalence of racial disparities in virtually all aspects of American society, these results raise important implications for the status of policies aimed at eliminating racial injustice.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sibl\/Publications\/Kaiser,%20Drury,%20Spalding,%20Cheryan,%20&amp;%20O%27Brien%20%282009%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ironic consequences of Obama\u2019s election: Decreased support for social justice Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Volume 45, Issue 3 (May 2009) pages 556\u2013559 DOI: 10.1016\/j.jesp.2009.01.006 Cheryl R. Kaiser, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Washington Benjamin J. Drury Department of Psychology University of Washington Kerry E. Spalding Department of Psychology University of Washington Sapna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,394,20],"tags":[13457,13462,13456,13461,1511,13463,13458,13460,13464,13459],"class_list":["post-27784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-benjamin-drury","tag-benjamin-j-drury","tag-cheryl-kaiser","tag-cheryl-r-kaiser","tag-journal-of-experimental-social-psychology","tag-kerry-e-spalding","tag-kerry-spalding","tag-laurie-obrien","tag-laurie-t-obrien","tag-sapna-cheryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27784","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=27784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}