Anti-Arabic prejudice in "Middletown."
Author: Johnson, Stephen D
Source:
Psychological Reports. Vol 70(3, Pt 1) Jun 1992, 811-818.
Examined factors related to anti-Arabic prejudice by surveying a random sample of 418 people from "Middletown" (Muncie, Indiana). Anti-Arabic prejudice was high in the fall of 1990. Low education and high authoritarianism had the strongest independent relations with this type of prejudice. However, being Protestant, vs Catholic, was independently related to anti-Arabic prejudice, Protestants being more prejudiced than Catholics. Also, an interaction was obtained between race and religious fundamentalism. Specifically, White fundamentalists were more prejudiced than White nonfundamentalists, but Black fundamentalists were much less prejudiced than Black nonfundamentalists. Some support was found for the idea that those who saw Arabs as an economic threat were more prejudiced.