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Crude historical depictions of
African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream U.S.
culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford,
Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley reveals
that many Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes.
The connection was made only with
African American faces; the paper's third study failed to find an ape
association with other non-white groups, such as Asians. Despite such
race-specific findings, the researchers stressed that dehumanization and animal
imagery have been used for centuries to justify violence against many oppressed
groups.
"It's a legacy of our past
that the endpoint of evolution is a white man," Eberhardt said. "I
don't think it's intentional, but when people learn about human evolution, they
walk away with a notion that people of African descent are closer to apes than
people of European descent. When people think of a civilized person, a white
man comes to mind."
In the paper's fifth study, the
researchers subliminally primed 115 white male undergraduates with words
associated with either apes (such as "monkey," "chimp,"
"gorilla") or big cats (such as "lion," "tiger,"
"panther"). The latter was used as a control because both images are
associated with violence and Africa, Eberhardt said. The subjects then watched
a two-minute video clip, similar to the television program COPS, depicting
several police officers violently beating a man of undetermined race. A mugshot
of either a white or a black man was shown at the beginning of the clip to
indicate who was being beaten, with a description conveying that, although
described by his family as "a loving husband and father," the suspect
had a serious criminal record and may have been high on drugs at the time of
his arrest.
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| This a monkey? OR MY OWN DAUGHTER MERTHO MATANJE? How many characteristics between a monkey and she EXIST in contradisticion to a paler person' characteristics? |
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