An Integrative Framework of Intersectional Stereotyping: Merging the Lens Model and MOSAIC to Explain Variations in Black-Threat Stereotyping.

Black-threat stereotyping, or the tendency to disproportionately associate Black individuals with threat-related concepts, is an artifact of American psychology. Nonetheless, most of what psychologists know about this topic concerns how Black-threat stereotypes are applied to young, straight Black men. In the present analysis, we review existing research on intersectional Black-threat stereotyping: broadly, how Black-threat stereotyping depends on the multiple, intersecting social categories to which targets belong. Although the existing literature is at times contradictory, we argue that it can be well-explained by an Integrative Framework of Intersectional Stereotyping that merges the core assumptions of two recent theories of intersectional stereotyping: the lens model and MOSAIC. The central contribution of the proposed framework is that intersectional stereotypes may at times be retrieved from memory and at other times be dynamically generated. We conclude with a roadmap for future research in this consequential domain.