Lumbee Federal Recognition:

Procedures are used today in all areas of life
including business, education, politics and as in
this study to determine a groups ethnicity. American
Indians are the only ethnic group that must petition
to the United States government to validate legally
their ethnicity.

The purpose of the current study was to explore the
effects of social exclusion threat negative affect on
the evaluated fairness of a procedure that functions
to validate ethnic membership using the Dimensional
Voice Model (Bane, 1994). It was hypothesized that
a procedure designed to validate ethnic membership
will result in social exclusion threat negative
affect. A procedure designed to validate ethnic
membership was hypothesized as being evaluated as
unfair(Thibaut, Walker, LaTour, & Houlden, 1974).
Justifications before the procedure was tested as the
rationale for the procedure introduced as procedural
justification. The results suggest that procedures
designed to validate ethnic membership were evaluated
as unfair. Additionally, the results indicated that
procedural justifications might affect perceptions of
fairness of the procedure. Implications for Lumbee
Federal Recognition are discussed.

Autorentext

David B. Oxendine, Ph. D.Assistant Professor,Chair, Department of Professional Leadership,School of EducationUniversity of North Carolina at Pembroke.Dr. Oxendine is married to Cammie Hunt Oxendine, Acting Dean inthe School of Education at UNCP.

Klappentext

Procedures are used today in all areas of lifeincluding business, education, politics and as inthis study to determine a groups ethnicity. AmericanIndians are the only ethnic group that must petitionto the United States government to validate legallytheir ethnicity.The purpose of the current study was to explore theeffects of social exclusion threat negative affect onthe evaluated fairness of a procedure that functionsto validate ethnic membership using the DimensionalVoice Model (Bane, 1994). It was hypothesized thata procedure designed to validate ethnic membershipwill result in social exclusion threat negativeaffect. A procedure designed to validate ethnicmembership was hypothesized as being evaluated asunfair(Thibaut, Walker, LaTour, & Houlden, 1974). Justifications before the procedure was tested as therationale for the procedure introduced as proceduraljustification. The results suggest that proceduresdesigned to validate ethnic membership were evaluatedas unfair. Additionally, the results indicated thatprocedural justifications might affect perceptions offairness of the procedure. Implications for LumbeeFederal Recognition are discussed.