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Race, Religion, and Beliefs about Racial Inequality

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  • Marylee C. Taylor

    (Pennsylvania State University)

  • Stephen M. Merino

    (Pennsylvania State University)

Abstract

This article focuses on stratification beliefs and racial policy opinions among white and black Americans who differ in religious preference. First, it summarizes earlier research on white conservative Protestants and outlines characterizations of Black Protestant church congregants. It then reports patterns of stratification beliefs and racial policy opinions among blacks and whites varying in religious preference who responded to the 1996 through 2006 General Social Surveys. Comparisons across twelve race-by-religion categories did not provide persuasive evidence that white conservative Protestants are uniquely conservative in their stratification beliefs, once background characteristics are controlled, nor was the Black Protestant group distinctive. Compared to blacks, whites were less inclined to structuralist explanations of racial inequality, slightly more inclined to individualist explanations, and consistently more negative about policies and programs to aid blacks. What is more, white Christians were more racially conservative in all these ways than non-Christian whites.

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  • Marylee C. Taylor & Stephen M. Merino, 2011. "Race, Religion, and Beliefs about Racial Inequality," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 634(1), pages 60-77, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:634:y:2011:i:1:p:60-77
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716210389537
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