Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2824-8353

Date Available

5-6-2024

Year of Publication

2024

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Document Type

Doctoral Dissertation

College

Arts and Sciences

Department/School/Program

Sociology

First Advisor

Dr. Janet Stamatel

Second Advisor

Dr. Tony Love

Abstract

Internalized racism exists, we can observe and measure the effect it has on people. It manifests from both the psychological and sociological factors that form a person’s racial self-image. As Campón and Carter (2015) state: “less attention to date has been given to … how racial minority groups appropriate (i.e., take in) racial beliefs.” (p.498). In this dissertation, I explore how internalized racism forms. Further, I propose a new theoretical model integrating two concepts, the racialized self and racialized experiences. Racism is found at different levels, within the self through the racialized self, it highlights how People of Color view themselves through a racially framed lens, as well as racist experiences from people and institutions.

Combining sociological and psychological theoretical developments in internalized racism research, I explore these relationships amongst the racialized self, racialized experiences, and internalized racism. Using an original self-reported survey, data was collected using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Prolific to explore how the racialized self and racialized experiences manifest among People of Color, then analyze their causal relationship with internalized racism. I find that the racialized self and racialized experiences significantly associate with internalized racism. While not all relationships are in the predicted direction, this dissertation shows that not only is there evidence for the existence of the racialized self and racialized experiences, but that both concepts aid in the formation of internalized racism.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2024.254

Funding Information

This study was supported in part by the University of Kentucky's Center for Equality and Social Justice's Graduation Fellowship in 2019.

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