A COMPARISON OF BLACK-AND-WHITE PREJUDICE

The prejudice of White Americans has been extensively studied, but tha t of African Americans has been comparatively ignored in the social sc iences. In this article, the prejudice of Black and White university s tudents is compared. Black respondents were students at Mississippi St ate University and White respondents were students at Iowa State Unive rsity in the spring and fall of 1993. After factoring prejudice into i ts component types, we found that Black students scored significantly higher on aversive and overall prejudice, but there was no significant racial difference on biological prejudice. There were few racial diff erences, however, in the correlates of overall prejudice. The percepti on of out-group threat was positively related to and voluntary intergr oup contact was negatively related to prejudice for Black and White re spondents alike. Stratification beliefs were a predictor of prejudice only for White respondents. These exploratory results suggest racial c omparisons of prejudice should be on the research agenda.