Racial threat

Broadly speaking, the term racial threat refers to how people react to those of a different race.[1] More specifically, the racial threat hypothesis or racial threat theory proposes that a higher population of members of a minority race results in the dominant race imposing higher levels of social control on the subordinate race, which, according to this hypothesis, occurs as a result of the dominant race fearing the subordinate race's political, economic, or criminal threat.[2][3] Racial threat theory is also known as minority group threat theory.[4] Research has shown a strong association between the size of a state's nonwhite prison population and the likelihood of that state enacting a felon disenfranchisement law, which supports a link between racial threat and the passage of such laws.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Levis, Laura (September–October 2014). "Unraveling "Racial Threat"". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Eitle, D.; D'Alessio, S. J.; Stolzenberg, L. (1 December 2002). "Racial Threat and Social Control: A Test of The Political, Economic, and Threat of Black Crime Hypotheses". Social Forces. 81 (2): 557–576. doi:10.1353/sof.2003.0007.
  3. ↑ PARKER, KAREN F.; STULTS, BRIAN J.; RICE, STEPHEN K. (November 2005). "RACIAL THREAT, CONCENTRATED DISADVANTAGE AND SOCIAL CONTROL: CONSIDERING THE MACRO-LEVEL SOURCES OF VARIATION IN ARRESTS*". Criminology. 43 (4): 1111–1134. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2005.00034.x.
  4. ↑ Eitle, David; Taylor, John (2008). "Are Hispanics the new 'Threat'? Minority Group Threat and Fear of Crime in Miami-Dade County". Social Science Research. 37 (4): 1102–1115. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.05.005. ISSN 0049-089X. PMC 4221266. PMID 19227693.
  5. ↑ Behrens, Angela; Uggen, Christopher; Manza, Jeff (November 2003). "Ballot Manipulation and the "Menace of Negro Domination": Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850–2002" (PDF). American Journal of Sociology. 109 (3): 559–605. doi:10.1086/378647.


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