The curse of race prejudice

Horatio Seymour was the Civil War’s most successful Democrat, securing the governorship of New York in 1862. This chapter analyses his election as a means to reconsider the record of the Democratic Party during the Civil War. Republicans at the time constantly questioned the loyalty of their partisan opponents. Scholarly discussion ever since has tended to reflect this, with historians explaining Democratic victories as the result of people voting against Republicans rather than for Democrats, who supposedly relied on race prejudice and antiwar sentiment to secure votes. I argue that Seymour offered an alternative vision of the Union war that Democrats and many swing voters deliberately endorsed. Reevaluating Seymour’s campaign on its own terms provides a clearer explanation of what the Union war meant for Democrats and why their party continued to receive support from upwards of 45 percent of the northern electorate during the conflict.

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Race, Prejudice, and Power in the Church

Becoming an Anti-Racist Church ◽

10.2307/j.ctt22h6s8h.12 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 87-100

Keyword(s):

Race Prejudice ◽

The Church

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Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist (1928)

The New Negro ◽

10.1515/9781400827879-063 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 343-350

Author(s):

James Weldon Johnson

Keyword(s):

Race Prejudice

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One of Us: On the Role of Accent and Race in Real-Time In-Group Categorization

Journal of Language and Social Psychology ◽

10.1177/0261927x19884090 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 22-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maria Paola Paladino ◽

Mara Mazzurega

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Social Dominance ◽

Person Perception ◽

First Generation ◽

Group Representation ◽

Early Stage ◽

Social Identification ◽

Race Prejudice ◽

Parallel Activation

In the present research, we investigated the combined role of accent (native vs. nonnative) and race (European native or White vs. nonnative or Black) in real-time in-group categorization among Italian participants. We found that targets presenting mixed cues (i.e., Black persons with a native accent and White persons with a nonnative accent) led to the simultaneous and parallel activation of in-group and out-group representation in the early stage of person perception, showing that both accent and appearance were initially processed. However, later in the process, when accent and appearance did not match, the first played a major role in the participants’ construal of the target as “one of us.” Finally, we examined the role of social identification, beliefs on the importance of language and race, prejudice, social dominance, and contacts with first-generation Italians in the categorization process. Theoretical and applied implications of the findings are discussed.

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