Ethnic Studies Program, Lawrence University, 711 E. Boldt Way, Appleton, WI, 54911, USA.
Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Department, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2022 Aug;51(6):3049-3062. doi: 10.1007/s10508-022-02351-2. Epub 2022 Jun 13.
As research on race and racism in the USA has suggested that it now takes a more subtle and neoliberal form, one of the areas in which race and racism are most explicit is in dating and sex. When finding dating and sexual partners, people tend to be explicit about their rejection of potential mates along racial lines while claiming that these preferences have no connection with racism. Callander et al.'s (2015) study was the first to provide the evidence that these expressions of sexual racism, or race-based rejections of partners in sexual contexts, were in fact related to cultural racism perpetuated in society at large. Despite all of this, the study has never been replicated. We aimed to partially replicate the study in the USA, using a sample of 616 gay, bisexual, and heterosexual men. Using the Quick Discrimination Index and online sexual racism surveys referenced in the original paper, we find a correlation of - 0.129, between the two measures. This suggests that respondents who demonstrate more openness and less racist beliefs in general are also less likely to be accepting of forms of online sexual racism, a finding that is consistent with prior research. Still, the correlation between these measures is not nearly as strong as that observed in Australia in the original paper (- 0.56), raising questions that require further exploration.
随着美国对种族和种族主义的研究表明，它现在呈现出一种更为微妙和新自由主义的形式，种族和种族主义最为明显的领域之一是约会和性。在寻找约会和性伴侣时，人们往往会明确表示拒绝潜在伴侣的种族界限，同时声称这些偏好与种族主义无关。Callander 等人（2015 年）的研究首次提供了证据，表明这些性种族主义的表达，或在性背景下对伴侣的基于种族的拒绝，实际上与整个社会中普遍存在的文化种族主义有关。尽管如此，这项研究从未被复制过。我们旨在在美国部分复制这项研究，使用了 616 名男同性恋、双性恋和异性恋男性的样本。我们使用原始论文中提到的快速歧视指数和在线性种族主义调查，发现这两个测量之间的相关性为-0.129。这表明，一般来说，表现出更多开放性和较少种族主义信念的受访者也不太可能接受在线性种族主义的形式，这一发现与先前的研究一致。不过，这些测量之间的相关性远不如原始论文中澳大利亚观察到的那么强（-0.56），这引发了需要进一步探索的问题。
