Replication Data for: Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy

Across a series of experiments, I show that racial threat from a stereotypically non-threatening racial minority group, Asian Americans, has a direct impact on white Americans’ views of discrimination toward the group. When white Americans learn the group is growing, the threat that they feel it decreases support for the idea that the threatening group experiences discrimination while simultaneously increasing support for policy which actively discriminates against it. I show this concept to be portable over context, examining support for discriminatory policy toward Asians in education policy and COVID-19 policy. I conclude by discussing the implications for how racial threat can drive more racial conflict while simultaneously decreasing the perception that this discrimination is occurring.