TY - JOUR PY - 2011// TI - Racial Attitudes in City, Neighborhood, and Situational Contexts JO - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science A1 - McDermott, Monica SP - 153 EP - 173 VL - 634 IS - 1 N2 - Multiple social contexts have been shown to affect racial attitudes both positively and negatively when considered at different levels. In this article, context is simultaneously considered at three different levels: the metropolitan area, the census block group, and the interview situation (as measured by race of interviewer/race of respondent matching). Significant effects can be classified into three categories: the effects of the racial composition of the city, the effects of the racial composition of the neighborhood, and the effects of a "differentrace" interviewer. Neighborhood income and race of interviewer effects are direct; by contrast, racial composition effects are typically cross-level interaction effects. This indicates that the modeling of cross-level interactions is essential for future studies of the effects of racial composition on attitudes.

LA - SN - 0002-7162 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716210388388 ID - ref1 ER -