Color-blind racial attitudes, social dominance orientation, racial-ethnic group membership and college students' perceptions of campus climate.

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AbstractMethodParticipantsInstruments Assessment of Campus Climate for Underrepresented Groups (URG; Rankin, 2000)Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS; Neville et al., 2000)Social Dominance Orientation Scale (SDS; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) ProcedureResultsPreliminary AnalysesDiscussion Graphics Table 1Table 2Table 3Table 4 Abstract Racial-ethnic group membership, color-blind racial attitudes (i.e., unawareness of racialprivilege, institutional discrimination, and blatant racial issues), and social dominanceorientation were used to predict perceptions of campus climate in general and specifically forpeople of color among a sample of 144 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students ata predominately White university. Results indicate that after controlling for racial-ethnicminority status, perceptions of “general campus climate” (GCC) and “racial-ethnic campusclimate” (RECC) are predicted by color-blind racial attitudes. Post hoc analyses indicated that Provided by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library