{"id":38006,"date":"2014-10-29T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38006"},"modified":"2014-10-29T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:57:17","slug":"the-electoral-consequences-of-skin-color-the-hidden-side-of-race-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38006","title":{"rendered":"The Electoral Consequences of Skin Color: The \u201cHidden\u201d Side of Race in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11109-010-9152-7\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Electoral Consequences of Skin Color: The \u201cHidden\u201d Side of Race in Politics<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11109\" target=\"_blank\">Political Behavior<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11109\/34\/1\/page\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 34, Issue 1<\/a> (March 2012)<br \/>\npages 159-192<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11109-010-9152-7\" target=\"_blank\">10.1007\/s11109-010-9152-7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/veslaweaver.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vesla M. Weaver<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Political Science<br \/>\n<em>Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite the significant role that skin color plays in material well-being and social perceptions, scholars know little if anything about whether skin color and afrocentric features influence political cognition and behavior and specifically, if intraracial variation in addition to categorical difference affects the choices of voters. Do more phenotypically black minorities suffer an electoral penalty as they do in most aspects of life? This study investigates the impact of color and phenotypically black facial features on candidate evaluation, using a nationally representative survey experiment of over 2000 whites. Subjects were randomly assigned to campaign literature of two opposing candidates, in which the race, skin color and features, and issue stance of candidates was varied. I find that afrocentric phenotype is an important, albeit hidden, form of bias in racial attitudes and that the importance of race on candidate evaluation depends largely on skin color and afrocentric features. However, like other racial cues, color and black phenotype don\u2019t influence voters\u2019 evaluations uniformly but vary in magnitude and direction across the gender and partisan makeup of the electorate in theoretically explicable ways. Ultimately, I argue, scholars of race politics, implicit racial bias, and minority candidates are missing an important aspect of racial bias.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/veslaweaver.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/weaver2010b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Consequences of Skin Color: The \u201cHidden\u201d Side of Race in Politics Political Behavior Volume 34, Issue 1 (March 2012) pages 159-192 DOI: 10.1007\/s11109-010-9152-7 Vesla M. Weaver, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Political Science Yale University Despite the significant role that skin color plays in material well-being and social perceptions, scholars know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[18306,2351,99],"class_list":["post-38006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-political-behavior","tag-vesla-m-weaver","tag-vesla-weaver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38006","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=38006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}