Study finds white people still think Black people are magical
The stereotype of the “magical Negro” didn’t vanished with the Antebellum South. New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science has found that whites continue to hold superstitious beliefs about black people. In America. In 2014.
A series of studies found that white people look upon blacks with a “superhumanization bias,” or the idea that black people have preternatural or otherwise uncommon abilities. This is may sound like good news, but it’s not.
“For example, whether white perception of black immunity to pain has more to do with stereotypes of increased toughness or dehumanization, the result is that whites are probably less able to recognize the suffering of black folk. That might explain why whites are quicker to assume young black men are dangerous or that young black offenders are more “adult” than white ones in the sentencing process. As the Huffington Post’s H.A. Goodman writes, white empathy with black suffering would require challenging a status quo that largely benefits whites.”
*nodding along normally to a study demonstrating what black people have been saying*
“In other words, exoticizing black people relegates them to roles subservient to whites in society. Hopefully these stereotypes will vanish as the white majority does; current projections have found that current minority groups will outnumber white people in the U.S. within 30 years.”
* ugly cackling*
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