ABSTRACT South African communities, and their social identities, are overwhelmingly constructed around and projected through racial classifiers. Historical and political developments promoted segregationist, exclusionist policies that culminated in restricted but permanent primordialist, racial and ethnic classifications arguing that each group has a unique but constant culture and identity. Such racialized limitations problematized ‘mixed race’ individuals classifying them in an empty epithet of ‘Coloured’ that lacked racial ‘purity’ and therefore as a group were inferior and peripheral. From the perspective of a reference group – in South Africa that is informed by a racialized hierarchy – peripheral identities were subjected to negative stereotypes. Therefore, it is assumed that as the Coloured community experienced negative stereotyping, there would be an acute sensitivity to perceptions of prejudice. Using racial and ethnic identifiers as an overarching process to scaffold Gordon Allport’s hypothesis of intergroup contact and prejudice as a point of departure the question posed is whether members of Coloured population are prejudiced of other marginalised minorities, particularly black African and Asian immigrants in South Africa? The purpose of this study is to determine if significant social distance attitudes exist from the perspective of the Coloured population toward African immigrants. In 2014, an amended Bogardus Social Distance Scale was administered to (n = 214) individuals who identify themselves as Coloured in former segregated suburbs in Port Elizabeth to examine prejudice within the communities. The conclusion reached is that social distance attitudes of selected members of the Coloured population are prejudiced toward those outside of the community. The findings are that prejudice against a particular group is not uniform but that this behaviour toward others is influenced by persistent reference group racism.

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少数群体的身份和对移民的消极态度：南非有色人种的偏见和空间差异

摘要南非社区及其社会身份绝大多数是围绕种族分类器构建的，并通过种族分类器进行预测。历史和政治发展促进了种族隔离主义，排斥主义政策，最终形成了严格但永久的原初主义，种族和族裔分类，认为每个群体都有独特但持续不变的文化和特性。这种种族化的局限性使“混血儿”个体陷入了问题，他们被归类为缺乏种族“纯度”的空着的“色族”，因此作为一个群体处于劣等地位。从一个参考团体的角度来看-在南非，种族化的等级制度使周边身份受到负面刻板印象。因此，假设有色社区经历了负面的陈规定型观念，对偏见的认知会非常敏锐。使用种族和种族标识符作为支撑Gordon Allport关于群体间接触和偏见的假说的总体过程，由此提出的问题是，有色人种成员是否对其他边缘化少数群体，特别是在南非的非洲黑人和亚洲移民有偏见？这项研究的目的是从有色人口对非洲移民的角度确定是否存在重大的社会距离态度。2014年，对（n = 214）在伊丽莎白港前偏远郊区自称为有色人种的个人进行了修订的Bogardus社会距离量表，以检查社区中的偏见。得出的结论是，有色人种成员的社会距离态度偏向社区之外的人。研究结果是，对特定群体的偏见并不统一，但是对他人的这种行为受到持久的参考群体种族主义的影响。