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Multiculturalism Increases Race Essentialism
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2022 · American Ethnicity
Research by Leigh Wilton showing that emphasizing racial differences (multiculturalism) increases racial essentialism.
direct Racial essentialism is the psychological essence of racism and is reinforced by multiculturalism that emphasizes differences.
Warrant (explicit): Psychological findings demonstrating that emphasizing group differences leads to essentialist thinking can be generalized as the primary mechanism by which multiculturalism fosters modern racism.
could fail ifThe laboratory settings used to measure psychological essentialism may not account for the protective effects of cultural pride and communal identity in real-world social movements.
Research showing that multiculturalism can increase race essentialism unless ethnicity is understood as learned knowledge.
direct Ancestry plays no innate role in ethnicity.
Warrant (explicit): Biological ancestry does not provide any innate cultural or linguistic knowledge, meaning that identity is exclusively a product of social learning.
could fail ifWhile ethnicity is learned, the psychological tendency toward 'in-group' bias may have an innate biological basis that influences how ethnic knowledge is acquired.
Leigh Wilton's research showing that multiculturalism can inadvertently increase race essentialism.
related Characterizing shared school culture as an 'ethnic imposition' is a modern form of essentialism and racism.
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Leigh S. Wilton et al., (2019)Leigh S. Wilton, Evan P. Apfelbaum, and Jessica J. Good, 'Valuing Differences and Reinforcing Them: Multiculturalism Increases Race Essentialism,' Social Psychological and Personality Science 10, no. 5 (July 2019)Wilton, Apfelbaum, and Good (2019)