Racialized perception

Doescher, M.P., "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Perceptions of Physicians Style and Trust," Arch. Pam. Med., 9, 1115-1163 (2000). 

These are matters of both conception and perception. Anglo-Saxon, Hebrew, Celt, Slav, Mediterranean, Caucasian —such classifications are not a matter of nomenclature alone indeed, racial differences are not only asserted or discussed but seen. The following chapters are... 

Culture, as a creature of history, destabilizes race by layering different conceptual schemes atop one another in response to shifting social and political circumstances. The palimpsest of race maps the terrain of ascription, perception, and subjectivity for a number of immigrant groups whose American experience has scarcely been recounted as a racial experience at all. 

This intensifying perception of a distinctly racial Jewishness coincided with two entangling developments between the 1850s and the early twentieth century the rise of the racial sciences, and the rise of what John Higham has called discriminatory (as opposed to ideological ) anti-Semitism.18 Popular accounts of the racial Otherness of Jews, that is, at... 

Similarly, when Newman loses a job opportunity because of his Semitic appearance, he muses over the way in which he has been artificially but nonetheless irretrievably interpolated as a racial Jew. Is it possible. .. that Mr. Stevens looked at me and thought me untrustworthy, or grasping, or loud because of my face he wonders. His reflection on this injustice stirs an inchoate protest against a regime of social perception that renders individuals so utterly knowable by their outward appearance. For the moment, however, Newman s capacity for protest is limited by his own stubborn adherence to that very regime. 

Pearson (1985) supports many of these claims in his study of African American doctoral scientists. Most of his respondents believed that their career mobility had been limited by their racial status. This finding varied across cohorts. For example, 74% of those earning doctorates before 1955 believe their career were restricted by race. By the last cohort, doctorates earned between 1965 and 1974, 60% reported that their career mobility had been restricted. Further, at least half of the females respondents reported that race and gender played significant roles in limited their careers. Some 59% of respondents who earned doctorates at the most prestigious department also reported the negatives effects that race exerted on the careers. Most respondents attributed these limiting factors to discrimination (especially exclusion from the communications network). Many respondents report that open communication between African American and white scientists is impeded by the perception that many white scientists fail to accept African American scientists as intellectual peers. 

Basu, S., Basford, T. E., Offermann, L. R., Graehner, R, Jaffer, S. (2010, April). Can leader hehavior reduce perceptions of racial microaggressions at work In L. R. Offermann (Chair), Leadership and diversity Science meets practice. Symposium conducted at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Adanta, GA. 

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