INTERVIEW: Linda Zou Flashcards
What does Linda Zou study?
Racial Position Model
Racial/ethnic minority groups within the U.S. are perceived along two dimensions: inferiority& cultural foreignness
What area of research is she interested in?
How big changes to racial landscape (ex. more immigration) impact how diff groups relate to one another
Why is her interest important?
Relations shape groups opportunities (Etc)
What was she seeing in literature before she made race position model?
Didn’t seem to be systematic review on how people see groups
And if these categories (foreignness and inferiority) effect discrimination
Does she think this model can apply globally, or is it just US?
She got a lot from US
Think it could be more broadly applied (espc. in Western cultures with immigration)
Could this model apply to religion?
Possibly, Maybe Jewish people take place of Asian Americans
While Muslims are foreign and inferior(?)
What aspect makes the foreignness so fixed?
When there is a dominant group or a massive majority (that is strictly defined)
What happens when she broke the categories down by gender?
(Ex. black woman instead of black people)
Nothing much change,
A couple distinctions (Asian American women and white women seen as more inferior)
Why wasn’t there much of an effect of gender on her results? (with black and Latinx women)
Idea of double jeopardy (women seen as less then men)
Some races seen as less then (men tend to be focus of discrimination tho)
So these both wash out the intersectionality in results
OR
Participants don’t know who’s higher status
Does she think these results would come out with IAT?
Patterns seem to be pretty consistent (with ppl implicitly ranking ppl on American vs non American)
(So yes with foreignness)
Does she think relative positions of groups can change over time?
And does she think they will?
They could (they have historically, with Asian americans seen as lower status before)
Aren’t set in stone
What are some current applications of the model?
RN. looking how these findings play out with labour market discrimination
- Ppl attach peoples standings / foreignness to job
ex. if high status job, may want an Asian person
What other study does she have now?
See how acceptable ppl find it to discriminate against others depending on their perceived inferiority
When someone is perceived as a foreigner, it is seen as more acceptable to not give them a job
What does she want to see more on?
inter-minority relations
How diff groups interact with black americans
What defines whiteness
