{"id":42742,"date":"2015-09-15T17:29:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42742"},"modified":"2015-09-15T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:29:48","slug":"biases-in-the-perception-of-barack-obamas-skin-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42742","title":{"rendered":"Biases in the Perception of Barack Obama&#8217;s Skin Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/asap.12061\" target=\"_blank\">Biases in the Perception of Barack Obama&#8217;s Skin Tone<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/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.2014.14.issue-1\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Issue 1, December 2014<\/a><br \/>\npages 137\u2013161<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/asap.12061\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/asap.12061<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unr.edu\/cla\/soc\/people-faculty-kemmelmeier.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Markus Kemmelmeier<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Nevada, Reno<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lyssettechavez\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>H. Lyssette Chavez<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>University of Nevada, Reno<\/em><\/p>\n<p>White Americans higher in prejudice were less likely to vote for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> than other Americans. Recent research also demonstrated that supporters and opponents of Mr. Obama engaged in skin tone biases, i.e., they perceive Mr. Obama&#8217;s skin tone as lighter or darker in line with more positive or negative views of him. Across two studies we hypothesized that skin tone biases occur as a function of two independent sources: racial prejudice, which is always related to skin tone bias, and political partisanship, which is related to skin tone bias primarily during elections. Study 1 assessed perceptions of Mr. Obama&#8217;s skin tone shortly before and after the 2008 Presidential election, and shortly after the first inauguration. Study 2 assessed perceptions in the middle of his first term, immediately prior to the 2012 Presidential election, and 1 year into his second term in office. Consistent with our hypothesis, we found that partisan skin tone bias was limited to the election period, whereas prejudice-based skin tone biases occurred independent from any election.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/asap.12061\/epdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biases in the Perception of Barack Obama&#8217;s Skin Tone Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 14, Issue 1, December 2014 pages 137\u2013161 DOI: 10.1111\/asap.12061 Markus Kemmelmeier, Professor of Sociology University of Nevada, Reno H. Lyssette Chavez University of Nevada, Reno White Americans higher in prejudice were less likely to vote for Barack Obama [&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":[3425,21077,21076],"class_list":["post-42742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-analyses-of-social-issues-and-public-policy","tag-h-lyssette-chavez","tag-markus-kemmelmeier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42742","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=42742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42743,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42742\/revisions\/42743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}