Intersecting race and gender stereotypes: Implications for group-level attitudes

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2018

Abstract

Two studies examined the relationship between explicit stereotyping and prejudice by investigating how stereotyping of minority men and women may be differentially related to prejudice. Based on research and theory related to the intersectional invisibility hypothesis (Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach, 2008), we hypothesized that stereotyping of minority men would be more strongly related to prejudice than stereotyping of minority women. Supporting our hypothesis, in both the United Kingdom (Study 1) and the United States (Study 2), when stereotyping of Black men and women were entered into the same regression model, only stereotyping of Black men predicted prejudice. Results were inconsistent in regard to South Asians and East Asians. Results are discussed in terms of the intersectional invisibility hypothesis (Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach, 2008) and the gendered nature of the relationship between stereotyping and attitudes.

Publication Title

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volume

21

Issue

8

First Page

1172

Last Page

1184

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1177/1368430217706742

ISSN

13684302

E-ISSN

14617188

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