[...] "We were interested in how the Latino community viewed the established African-American and white populations and how these established communities viewed Latinos, many of whom recently immigrated,” Scotto said. “Our questions focused on whether Latinos held negative stereotypes of African-Americans, whether the amount of time spent in the community would mitigate these stereotypes, and whether Latinos felt that they had more in common with white or African-American residents.”
After surveying 500 participants of various racial backgrounds, the study found that blacks viewed Latinos much more favorably than Latinos viewed blacks. Nearly three-fourths of blacks felt most or almost all Latinos are hard-working while only 9.2 percent of Latinos felt that most or almost all blacks are hard-working.
“We found higher levels of education and contact with African-Americans in a social setting reduced the stereotyping,” Scotto said. “Although such a finding makes us hopeful for the future of Latino-African American relations in the South, our results also indicate that it is a relationship that will not simply develop magically over time. This is because the length of time a Latino was in the country did not significantly reduce the stereotypes the individual had toward African-Americans.” [...]
| That's from the Newswise press release Political Scientist Co-Authors Study on Racial Stereotypes" about “Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans" (manuscript 152 KB; Adobe PDF format; appendix 56 KB; Adobe PDF format)
Bonus-round links from the same source: "The Conditional Effects of Minority Descriptive Representation: Black Legislators and Policy Influence in the American States, Robert R. Preuhs," "Race, Education, and Individualism Revisited, Christopher M. Federico, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities" and "Rethinking Symbolic Racism: Evidence of Attribution Bias, Rethinking Symbolic Racism: Evidence of Attribution Bias, Brad T. Gomez, University of South Carolina and J. Matthew Wilson, Southern Methodist University"
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