Racial Threat and White Opposition to Bilingual Education in Texas

Autor/inn/en	Hempel, Lynn M.; Dowling, Julie A.; Boardman, Jason D.; Ellison, Christopher G.
Titel	Racial Threat and White Opposition to Bilingual Education in Texas
Quelle	In: Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 35 (2013) 1, S.85-102 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0739-9863
DOI	10.1177/0739986312461626
Schlagwörter	Educational Attitudes; Minority Groups; Bilingual Education; Whites; Bilingualism; Bilingual Education Programs; Cultural Context; Census Figures; Regression (Statistics); Hispanic Americans; Population Distribution; Population Growth; Hypothesis Testing; Fear; Negative Attitudes; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Ethnische Minderheit; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; White; Weißer; Bilingualismus; Volkszählung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Demographical distribution; Bevölkerungsverteilung; Population increase; Bevölkerungswachstum; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Furcht; Negative Fixierung
Abstract	This study examines local contextual conditions that influence opposition to bilingual education among non-Hispanic Whites, net of individual-level characteristics. Data from the Texas Poll (N = 615) are used in conjunction with U.S. Census data to test five competing hypotheses using binomial and multinomial logistic regression models. Our results support a "racial threat" hypothesis, suggesting that increasing opposition to bilingual education among Whites corresponds to changes in the Hispanic population. We find opposition to bilingual education among non-Hispanic Whites to be most pronounced in areas with substantial growth in an already sizeable Hispanic population, and least pronounced in areas of high growth rates and historically low proportions of Hispanics. Importantly, our results highlight the relevance of the interaction between minority group size and minority growth rates in generating majority opposition to bilingual education programs in the United States. (Contains 1 table, 1 figure and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10