Table of Contents

Part One: Aspects of Interracial Interaction; Section A: Focus on the Majority Group; Chapter One: The Development of Racial Awareness and Prejudice in Children; Chapter 2: The Measurement of Prejudice; Chapter 3: The Roots of Prejudice: Emotional Dynamics; Chapter 4: The Roots of Prejudice: Cognitive Aspects 1; Chapter 5: Techniques for Reducing Prejudice: Changing the Prejudiced Person; Chapter 6: Techniques for Reducing Prejudice: Changing the Situation; Section B: Focus on the Minority Group; Chapter 7: Colour: The Nature and Meaning of Negro Self-Identity; Chapter 8: Status: The Marginal Reaction - Mixed-Bloods and Jews; Chapter 9: Migration: Problems of Adjustment and Assimilation in Immigrants; Section C: Focus on the Interaction; Chapter 10: Interpersonal Attitudes and Behaviour in Race Relations; Chapter 11: Negro Performance in Interracial Situations; Chapter 12: Some Mechanics of Racial Etiquette; Chapter 13: Race Relations and Behaviour in Reality; Part Two: The Race Variable and Key Issues in Psychology; Section D: The Interaction of Personality and Culture; Chapter 14: Culture, Personality and Prejudice; Chapter 15: Family, Marital and Child-Rearing Patterns in Different Ethnic Groups; Section E: Education; Chapter 16: Education and Immigrants; Chapter 17: Race and Intelligence through the Looking Glass; Chapter 18: Alternatives to a Personality-Deficit Interpretation of Negro Under-Achievement 1; Section F: Language; Chapter 19: Learning Each Other's Languages; Chapter 20: The Sociolinguistics of Nationalism; Section G: A Miscellany of Other Key Issues; Chapter 21: Psychiatric Disorders in Minority Groups; Chapter 22: Crime and Delinquency in Immigrant and Minority Groups; Chapter 23: Tests as Inadvertent Sources of Discrimination in Personnel Decisions 1

About the Author

Peter Watson was deputy editor of The New Society and spent a total of four years with The London Sunday Times as part of their Insight Team. He has written several books and since 1998 has been Research Associate at the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre located at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Reviews

-[T]he book may be a useful supplement for introductory race relations courses.- --Richard Apostle, Contemporary Sociology -Given the difficulty of compiling a coherent collection of original articles on a topic such as Psychology and Race, Watson has succeeded admirably. . . . [I]t provides an excellent introduction to its socio-psychological study, an area usually neglected by anthropologists.- --Richard Basham, American Anthropologist

"[T]he book may be a useful supplement for introductory race relations courses." --Richard Apostle, Contemporary Sociology "Given the difficulty of compiling a coherent collection of original articles on a topic such as Psychology and Race, Watson has succeeded admirably. . . . [I]t provides an excellent introduction to its socio-psychological study, an area usually neglected by anthropologists." --Richard Basham, American Anthropologist

"[T]he book may be a useful supplement for introductory race relations courses." --Richard Apostle, Contemporary Sociology "Given the difficulty of compiling a coherent collection of original articles on a topic such as Psychology and Race, Watson has succeeded admirably. . . . [I]t provides an excellent introduction to its socio-psychological study, an area usually neglected by anthropologists." --Richard Basham, American Anthropologist