TY - JOUR
T1 - Racial integration, ethnic diversity, and prejudice
T2 - Empirical evidence from a study of the British National Party
AU - Lennox, Clive
PY - 2012/7/1
Y1 - 2012/7/1
N2 - Does contact with ethnic minorities exacerbate or lower the racial prejudice of whites? To provide empirical evidence on this question, I examine the recruitment of members by the British National Party (BNP), which has a long history of supplying hate-creating stories about ethnic minorities. I find that the BNP recruits fewer white members from communities in which: (i) whites interact more frequently with nonwhites, (ii) whites are exposed to greater racial diversity within the nonwhite population, and (iii) there are more mixed-race offspring from white and nonwhite parents. Further tests suggest that these results are not attributable to self-segregation or economic conditions. Overall, there is compelling evidence that contact with ethnic minorities reduces the racial prejudice of whites.
AB - Does contact with ethnic minorities exacerbate or lower the racial prejudice of whites? To provide empirical evidence on this question, I examine the recruitment of members by the British National Party (BNP), which has a long history of supplying hate-creating stories about ethnic minorities. I find that the BNP recruits fewer white members from communities in which: (i) whites interact more frequently with nonwhites, (ii) whites are exposed to greater racial diversity within the nonwhite population, and (iii) there are more mixed-race offspring from white and nonwhite parents. Further tests suggest that these results are not attributable to self-segregation or economic conditions. Overall, there is compelling evidence that contact with ethnic minorities reduces the racial prejudice of whites.
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UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpr058
U2 - 10.1093/oep/gpr058
DO - 10.1093/oep/gpr058
M3 - Article
SN - 0030-7653
VL - 64
SP - 395
EP - 416
JO - Oxford Economic Papers
JF - Oxford Economic Papers
IS - 3
ER -