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Racism without Hatred? Racist Humor and the Myth of “Colorblindness”

Overview of attention for article published in Sociological Perspectives, August 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#26 of 626)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
34 X users
reddit
30 Redditors

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mendeley
131 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Racism without Hatred? Racist Humor and the Myth of “Colorblindness”
Published in
Sociological Perspectives, August 2017
DOI 10.1177/0731121417719699
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 131 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 14%
Student > Bachelor 12 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 8%
Researcher 10 8%
Other 19 15%
Unknown 43 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 38 29%
Psychology 16 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 6%
Linguistics 8 6%
Arts and Humanities 6 5%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 45 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 91. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 July 2024.
All research outputs
#587,573
of 34,296,127 outputs
Outputs from Sociological Perspectives
#26
of 626 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,341
of 357,824 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociological Perspectives
#2
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,296,127 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 626 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 357,824 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 10 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 8 of them.