Aicha is more Dutch but less dynamic than Ahmed:The gendered nature of race in the Netherlands

In this article we rely on accent evaluation to test the ‘intersectional invisibility hypothesis’1 that social cognition about men (but not women) is overrepresented in group-level beliefs.2 As a case in point, we investigate the evaluation of male and female Moroccan accents to gain insight into impression formation of Muslims in the Netherlands, and to find out whether stereotypical qualities associated with Moroccan-Dutch people, such as aggressive, macho, and criminal, are in fact associated with Moroccan-Dutch men. Two matched-guise experiments featuring regional and ethnic accents of Dut... Mehr ...