Somewhere Over The Rainbow Where Racial Paradise Purports To Grow: How Diverse Environments Foster Racial Inequalities
| dc.contributor.advisor | Pauker, Kristin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ansari, Shahana Michelle | |
| dc.contributor.department | Psychology | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-19T22:36:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-19T22:36:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | As the United States continues to grow its racial diversity and there are renewed calls to combat racial inequality, there continue to be unanswered empirical questions regarding how inequalities persist, particularly in environments that are ideal for positive intergroup relations. Hawai‘i is an ideal context to investigate these questions as Hawai‘i's racial demographic makeup shows no single racial group constituting a majority and because Hawai‘i has a culture that explicitly values diversity. However, Hawai‘i is far from immune to systemic racial inequality. This work investigates one possible mechanism of persisting racial inequality in this racially diverse environment: Racial categorization bias. Previous work has found that both children and adult populations in Hawai‘i show a propensity for perceiving multiple racial and ethnic categories within a single, monoracial face and for perceiving racial diversity and multiraciality when looking at groups of homogenous, monoracial faces. Given such findings, I hypothesized that Hawai‘i locals have a perceptual bias to see multiraciality and diversity as a function of motivated, top-down processes and I theorized that this bias can translate to a blindness to racial inequalities. Findings suggest individuals from Hawai‘i do have more of a perceptual bias to see multiraciality compared to individuals not from Hawai‘i, but motivational processes impacting this propensity may be moderated by other variables. On the other hand, optimistic attitudes about racism in Hawai‘i predicted a perceptual bias to see homogeneity in groups, suggesting group categorization is reliably malleable to top-down processes. Implications and limitations are discussed. | |
| dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10125/103890 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii at Manoa | |
| dc.subject | Racism | |
| dc.subject | Race discrimination | |
| dc.subject | Racially mixed people | |
| dc.title | Somewhere Over The Rainbow Where Racial Paradise Purports To Grow: How Diverse Environments Foster Racial Inequalities | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| dcterms.spatial | Hawaii | |
| local.identifier.alturi | http://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:11460 |
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