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The Political Consequences of Indigenous Resentment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2020

Edana Beauvais
Edana Beauvais*
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Harvard University
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Edana Beauvais, Harvard University, Department of Government, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA, 02138. E-mail: ebeauvais@hks.harvard.edu
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Abstract

Understanding the legacy of settler colonialism requires understanding the nature and scope of anti-Indigenous attitudes. But what, exactly, are the political consequences of anti-Indigenous attitudes? Answering this question requires recognizing that attitudes toward Indigenous peoples are distinct from White racial attitudes toward other disempowered groups. In this paper, I introduce a novel measure of Indigenous resentment. I then show that Indigenous resentment is an important predictor of policy attitudes using data collected from an original survey of White settlers. I estimate the effect of both Indigenous resentment and negative affect on policy attitudes—opposition to welfare and support for pipeline developments—to make the case that Indigenous resentment is a better measure of anti-Indigenous attitudes than affective prejudice, and that Indigenous resentment is an important omitted variable in the study of public opinion in settler societies.

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settler-colonialismsymbolic racismracial and ethnic politicsprejudiceanti-Indigenous attitudes

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Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 37 - 64
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

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