Aversive racism

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Aversive Racism is a theory proposed by Gaertner & Dovidio (1986) based on the idea that evaluations of racial/ethnic minorities are characterised by a conflict between White's endorsement of egalitarian values and their unacknowledged negative attitudes toward racial/ethnic out-groups. As opposed to old-fashioned racism, which is characterised by overt hatred for and discrimination against racial/ethnic minorities, aversive racism is characterised by more complex, ambivalent racial expressions and attitudes. ^[1]

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