Prejudice, Politics, and the American Dilemma

by Sniderman, Paul M.; Tetlock, Philip E.; Carmines, Edward G.

• ISBN13: 9780804724821
• ISBN10: 0804724822
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

It has been half a century since the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal's seminal work on race in America. This book is an attempt to contribute to a fresh understanding of this dilemma by viewing the issues of race as they are now, not as they were a generation or so ago.

Table of Contents

Prejudice and Politics: An Introduction	p. 1
Intergroup Relations and Stereotype Change: A Social-Cognitive Analysis and Some Longitudinal Findings	p. 32
Personal Attributes of People Described by Others as Intolerant	p. 60
Age and Cohort Differences in American Racial Attitudes: The Generational Replacement Hypothesis Revisited	p. 86
Ethnic Stereotyping: A Black-White Comparison	p. 104
Dimensions of Whites' Beliefs About the Black-White Socioeconomic Gap	p. 127
Middle-class Blacks and the Ambiguities of Success	p. 148
The Inevitability of Oppression and the Dynamics of Social Dominance	p. 173
The Politics of the American Dilemma: Issue Pluralism	p. 212
The Changing American Dilemma: Liberal Values and Racial Policies	p. 237
Assessing the Presidential Candidacies of Jesse Jackson	p. 256
The Decline in College Entry Among African Americans: Findings in Search of Explanations	p. 271
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 333
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