Black Students' Support for the System

Authors

  • Donald E. Whistler

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1980.1.0.50-74

Abstract

Employing a volunteer sample of 123 black students, this research finds their political trust in the abstract level of the nation to be high but support for its political institutions, except the United States Supreme Court, to be low. While largely from lower socio-economic backgrounds, the sample is, however, sanguine regarding the effectiveness of the socioeconomic system to improve the racial climate and to produce their life-work desired. Support for within-the-system political activities is high and no support exists for racial separation. Relationships between socio-economic backgrounds, trust in the political system (legitimacy), and systemic effectiveness, on the one hand, and support for conventional/unconventional political activities, on the other, were very scattered and weak.

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1981-01-01

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