<p>With evidence of racial injustice in policing, why does the White public remain divided on support for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement? This study engages movement–countermovement literature to examine the dynamic relationship between support for police and opposition to BLM, focusing on which individual attitudes uphold this pro-police anti-BLM counterframe. I identify three possible key mechanisms: racial resentment, conservative political ideology, and individual-level White ignorance about the amount of violence in the protests of 2020. Using a nationally representative survey of 5963 White Americans from 2020, I employ ordinary least squares and mediation analysis to examine both the prevalence of the pro-police anti-BLM counterframe and the role of these explanatory factors. Results indicate that these factors, particularly racial resentment, fully explain the counterframe. These findings highlight the complexity of how individuals adhere to counterframes through both racial and seemingly “non-racial” attitudes, obscuring ongoing evidence of police brutality and repressing social change in the colorblind era.</p>

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Racial Resentment, Conservative Ideology, and White Ignorance: Mechanisms Maintaining the Pro-police Anti-Black Lives Matter Counterframe Among White Americans

  • Tim Lauve-Moon

摘要

With evidence of racial injustice in policing, why does the White public remain divided on support for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement? This study engages movement–countermovement literature to examine the dynamic relationship between support for police and opposition to BLM, focusing on which individual attitudes uphold this pro-police anti-BLM counterframe. I identify three possible key mechanisms: racial resentment, conservative political ideology, and individual-level White ignorance about the amount of violence in the protests of 2020. Using a nationally representative survey of 5963 White Americans from 2020, I employ ordinary least squares and mediation analysis to examine both the prevalence of the pro-police anti-BLM counterframe and the role of these explanatory factors. Results indicate that these factors, particularly racial resentment, fully explain the counterframe. These findings highlight the complexity of how individuals adhere to counterframes through both racial and seemingly “non-racial” attitudes, obscuring ongoing evidence of police brutality and repressing social change in the colorblind era.