Blood quantum and perceptions of black-white biracial targets: The black ancestry prototype model of affirmative action

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-14

  Sanchez, Diana T ^a   Good, Jessica J ^a   Chavez, George ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affirmative action; biracial identity; multiracial; racial discrimination; social categorization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650502802     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167210389473     Document Type: Article

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