TY - JOUR
T1 - Political rhetoric, immigration attitudes, and contemporary prejudice
T2 - A mexican american dilemma
AU - Short, Robert
AU - Magaña, Lisa
PY - 2002/12/1
Y1 - 2002/12/1
N2 - The authors examined political candidates' social stereotypes of Mexican immigrants in mainstream media accounts. From those popular themes, they formed semantic differential scales, which they administered to participants (N = 201) with 1 of 4 scenarios describing an illegal immigrant: of Mexican vs. English Canadian descent and with vs. without several parking tickets. Consistent with contemporary theories of prejudice (J. F. Dovidio & S. L. Gaertner, 1996), the participants indicated the greatest agreement with the pejorative themes when the immigrant described was of Mexican descent and had accumulated parking tickets. Psychologically, the parking tickets served as a nonethnic rationale for discriminating against that ethnic group. The authors discuss the social and public policy implications of Mexican immigration as a political phenomenon.
AB - The authors examined political candidates' social stereotypes of Mexican immigrants in mainstream media accounts. From those popular themes, they formed semantic differential scales, which they administered to participants (N = 201) with 1 of 4 scenarios describing an illegal immigrant: of Mexican vs. English Canadian descent and with vs. without several parking tickets. Consistent with contemporary theories of prejudice (J. F. Dovidio & S. L. Gaertner, 1996), the participants indicated the greatest agreement with the pejorative themes when the immigrant described was of Mexican descent and had accumulated parking tickets. Psychologically, the parking tickets served as a nonethnic rationale for discriminating against that ethnic group. The authors discuss the social and public policy implications of Mexican immigration as a political phenomenon.
KW - English Canadian immigrants
KW - Immigration
KW - Mexican immigrants
KW - Politics
KW - Social stereotypes
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U2 - 10.1080/00224540209603930
DO - 10.1080/00224540209603930
M3 - Article
C2 - 12450345
AN - SCOPUS:0036886974
SN - 0022-4545
VL - 142
SP - 701
EP - 712
JO - Journal of Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 6
ER -