African American Attribution To Prejudice

In this study we used questionnaire data from a sample of
African Americans to test our model of the multiple effects of willingness to make attributions to prejudice. Unlike previous work that has manipulated the plausibility of an attribution to prejudice concerning a single event, we measured individual differences in the willingness to use prejudice as an explanation for negative outcomes in one's past and in future hypothetical situations.
Because our hypotheses concerned the effects of perceiving prejudice as stable and pervasive, and not the effects of attributions to prejudice for a single event, our research was not a critical test of Crocker and Major's (1989) contention that an attribution to prejudice for a single performance outcome