Dovidio And Gaertner 2000 Summary

Dovidio and Gaertner (2000) conceptualized a new form of racism that predicts discriminatory conduct when the decision is more ambiguous. Dovidio (2001) demonstrated that a new form of “modern” White racism – essentially unconscious – reflects a surface belief in racial equality that masks latent, unconscious prejudicial feelings that can affect the ability of Blacks to get jobs and to do well in them. Dovidio found that nearly half of all Whites demonstrate this propensity and find ways to rationalize their biases on the basis of factors that seem, on the surface, to be unrelated to race. Although this motivation is hidden to Whites, Blacks identify it clearly. Dovidio’s results demonstrated that Blacks pick up Whites’ negative facial cues