White Americans are increasingly aware of how their racial identity is implicated in racism. Although many White people have anti-racist attitudes and endorse the belief that White people are culpable for racism, their identities can still be threatened when they encounter information about racism. Although decades of research indicate that people strongly prefer information that affirms their prior attitudes, it is less clear what happens when the information also threatens their identity. This talk will explore the impact of identity threats in motivated information selection among White Americans. I will present new data suggesting that identity threats, and not just attitudes, motivate Whites to avoid information about racism. I posit that testing the attitudinal and identity-based motivations in tandem helps to advance theory on attitudes and intergroup processes and shed light on contemporary racial-political divides.