Conversations about race-specific issues with interracial conversation partners can be important to combat prejudice and foster mutual understanding. Using a national U.S. sample of 201 Black Democrats, 199 Black Republicans, 200 White Democrats, and 200 White Republicans, this study examined the role that race and partisanship play in individuals’ desire to have political discussions about race-specific topics with racial outgroups. Findings indicate that Blacks in general expected more negative outcomes of race talk with racial outgroups, and Republicans were more likely to attempt to avoid interracial conversations about race. However, these findings were qualified by an interaction between race and partisanship such that White Democrats anticipated fewer negative outcomes from cross-race conversations about race than all other subgroups, and Black Democrats expected more negative outcomes than all other subgroups. Black and White Republicans did not differ from one another and fell roughly between the two Democratic subgroups. Nonetheless, it was White Republicans who were most likely to want to avoid race-specific conversations with cross-race discussion partners, rating significantly more avoidant than Black Republicans and White Democrats, but not Black Democrats.

与种族间对话伙伴进行有关种族特定问题的对话对于消除偏见和增进相互了解可能非常重要。该研究使用美国201位黑人民主党人，199位黑人共和党人，200位白人共和党人和200位白人共和党人的全国样本，研究了种族和党派关系在个人希望就种族特定群体的特定种族话题进行政治讨论时所扮演的角色。调查结果表明，黑人总体上期望与种族外出群体进行种族对话的负面结果更大，而共和党人更有可能避免种族间的种族对话。但是，这些发现被种族与党派之间的互动所证实，因此，与其他所有子群体相比，白人民主党人对种族的跨种族对话所预期的负面结果要少得多，黑人民主党人期望的负面结果要比其他所有亚组都多。黑人和白人共和党人之间没有什么不同，大致落在两个民主党派之间。尽管如此，最有可能是白人共和党人希望避免与跨种族讨论伙伴进行针对种族的对话，与黑人共和党人和白人民主党人相比，回避者的等级明显更高，但黑人黑人则没有。