A notable increase in immigration into the United States over the past half century, coupled with its recent geographic dispersion into new communities nationwide, has fueled contact among a wider set of individuals and groups than ever before. Past research has helped us understand Whites’ and Blacks’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration, and even how contact between Blacks and Whites have shaped their attitudes toward one another. Nevertheless, how contact between Blacks and Whites may correspond with attitudes toward immigrants is not as well understood. Drawing on an original representative survey, we examine U.S.-born Whites’ and Blacks’ attitudes toward Mexican and South Asian Indian immigrants within the context of ongoing relations between the former two U.S.-born communities. Informed by research on the secondary transfer effect (STE), we model how the frequency of contact between U.S.-born Whites and Blacks predicts each group’s receptivity toward two differentially positioned immigrant groups, first-generation Mexicans and South Asian Indians. Multivariate analysis indicates that, among Whites, more frequent contact with Blacks is positively associated with greater receptivity toward both immigrant outgroups, even after controlling for Whites’ individual perceptions of threat, their direct contact with the two immigrant groups, and the perceived quality of such contact. Among Blacks, however, we find less consistent evidence that frequent contact with Whites is associated with attitudes toward either immigrant group. While varied literatures across multiple disciplines have suggested that interracial relations among the U.S.-born may be associated with receptivity toward immigrant newcomers, our results uniquely highlight the importance of considering how U.S.-born groups are positioned in relation to immigrants and to each other when examining such effects.

在过去的半个世纪中，移民到美国的人数显着增加，加上最近在全国范围内分散到新的社区，与以往任何时候相比，已经推动了更广泛的个人和群体之间的联系。过去的研究帮助我们了解了白人和黑人对移民和移民的态度，甚至了解了黑人和白人之间的接触如何塑造了他们对彼此的态度。然而，人们对黑人和白人之间的接触如何与对移民的态度相对应的了解还不够。在原始的代表性调查的基础上，我们在前两个美国出生社区之间的持续关系的背景下，研究了美国出生的白人和黑人对墨西哥和南亚印度裔移民的态度。通过对二次转移效应（STE）的研究的了解，我们对美国出生的白人和黑人之间的接触频率如何预测每个群体对两个不同位置的移民群体（第一代墨西哥人和南亚印第安人）的接受程度进行了建模。多变量分析表明，即使在控制了白人个人对威胁的感知，他们与两个移民群体的直接接触以及他们的感知质量之后，在白人中，与黑人的更频繁接触与对两个移民群体的接受度也呈正相关。联系。然而，在黑人中，我们发现不一致的证据表明，经常与白人接触与对任一移民群体的态度有关。