http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-green/assigning-value-to-race-t_b_443283.html
This is a really good article about the "slips-of-tongue" people in the media make sometimes (focusing most recently on Chris Matthews after the State of the Union Address).
This is a really good article about the "slips-of-tongue" people in the media make sometimes (focusing most recently on Chris Matthews after the State of the Union Address).
This is interesting because people do it all the time. Instead of meeting a Black person and changing stereotypes of their race, they cognitively separate the person from the group. I think this is why many prejudiced people still have friends of other races: they like that person because from their perspective, they don't conform to the group stereotypes and therefore don't belong to the group. It also intrigues me because my thesis is asking the same question about famous people. When we see a famous African American, do we see them as famous first or vice versa? Past face recognition research has shown that famous admired African Americans actually take longer to process than their White counterparts; it is believed this occurs because of stereotype incongruence. So is it that our stereotypes don't match and therefore we don't assign a category label? Does this then mean that they then become part of the ingroup?