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Ethnic Stigma as a Contextual Experience: A Possible Selves Perspective
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Lisa M.en_US
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dc.date.issued1998en_US
dc.identifier.citationBrown, Lisa (1998). "Ethnic Stigma as a Contextual Experience: A Possible Selves Perspective." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 24(2): 163-172. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68694>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0146-1672en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68694
dc.description.abstractThis article critiques trait views of stigma that suggest that membership in a negatively stereotyped group leads to low self-esteem and self-hatred, and it builds from Erving Goffman's theorizing to define stigma as the expectation of a stereotypical and discrediting judgment of oneself by others in a particular context. Students (40 of color and 46 European American) watched a videotape of a prospective teaching assistant (TA) in an experiment in which ethnic match with the TA and frequency of imagined evaluation by the TA were manipulated. Students of color envisioned less positive views of self in ongoing interactions with a European American TA who would evaluate them in the domain of the stigma. Implications for stigma theory and education are discussed.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleEthnic Stigma as a Contextual Experience: A Possible Selves Perspectiveen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michigan, [email protected].en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68694/2/10.1177_0146167298242005.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0146167298242005en_US
dc.identifier.sourcePersonality and Social Psychology Bulletinen_US
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