{"id":36308,"date":"2014-04-17T22:11:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36308"},"modified":"2014-04-17T22:11:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:11:45","slug":"witnesses-to-history-childrens-views-of-race-and-the-2008-united-states-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36308","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses to History: Children&#8217;s Views of Race and the 2008 United States Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1530-2415.2012.01303.x\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Witnesses to History: Children&#8217;s Views of Race and the 2008 United States Presidential Election<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1530-2415\" target=\"_blank\">Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/asap.2013.13.issue-1\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 13, Issue 1<\/a> (December 2013)<br \/>\npages 186\u2013210<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1530-2415.2012.01303.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1530-2415.2012.01303.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pre.soe.ku.edu\/meagan-patterson\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meagan M. Patterson<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Kansas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitman.edu\/academics\/courses-of-study\/psychology\/people\/faculty\/erin-pahlke\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Erin Pahlke<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/depts\/psychology\/faculty\/bigler\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rebecca S. Bigler<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Psychology and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 2008 presidential election presented a unique opportunity to examine children&#8217;s attention to racial issues in politics. We conducted interviews with 6- to 11-year-old children (70 boys, 60 girls; 29 African Americans, 58 European Americans, 43 Latinos) within 3 weeks prior to and after the election. Interview questions concerned knowledge, preferences, and perceptions of others\u2019 attitudes concerning the election, views of the implications of the election for race relations, and personal aspirations to become president. Results indicated that children were highly knowledgeable about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama&#8217;s<\/a> status as the first African American president. Most children felt positively about the presence of an African American candidate for president, although a few children showed clear racial prejudice. Overall, children expected others to show racial ingroup preferences but simultaneously endorsed the optimistic view that Obama&#8217;s race was a slight asset in his bid for the presidency. Older children were somewhat more likely to view Obama&#8217;s race as negatively impacting his chances of being elected than younger children. African American and Latino children were more interested in becoming president than European American children; aspiration rates did not change from pre- to post-election.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1530-2415.2012.01303.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses to History: Children&#8217;s Views of Race and the 2008 United States Presidential Election Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 13, Issue 1 (December 2013) pages 186\u2013210 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1530-2415.2012.01303.x Meagan M. Patterson, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Kansas Erin Pahlke, Assistant Professor of Psychology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Rebecca S. Bigler, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,125,8,26,20],"tags":[3425,17237,17236,17238,17235,17239,17241,17240],"class_list":["post-36308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-analyses-of-social-issues-and-public-policy","tag-erin-e-pahlke","tag-erin-elizabeth-pahlke","tag-meagan-m-patterson","tag-meagan-michaud-patterson","tag-meagan-patterson","tag-rebecca-bigler","tag-rebecca-s-bigler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36308","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=36308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}