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Racial Attitudes in the 1990s
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This collection of essays by leading race relations experts addresses key issues and debates in the literature and includes chapters on the racial attitudes of both whites and African-Americans.

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Illustrations Introduction by Jack K. Martin, E.M. Beck, and Steven A. Tuch The Transformation of Racial Attitudes in the United States Prologue: Reflections on Racial Attitude Research by A. Wade Smith Laissez-Faire Racism: The Crystallization of a Kinder, Gentler Anti Black Ideology by Lawrence Bobo, James R. Kluegel, and Ryan A. Smith The Racial Attitudes of Whites Symbolic Racism, Old-Fashioned Racism, and Whites' Opposition to Affirmative Action by Michael Hughes The Affective Component of Prejudice: Empirical Support for the New View by Thomas F. Pettigrew Sociodemographic Attributes and the Racial Attitudes of Whites Status, Ideology, and Dimensions of Whites' Racial Beliefs and Attitudes: Progress and Stagnation by Lawrence Bobo and James R. Kluegel Advance and Retreat: Racially Based Attitudes and Public Policy by Cedric Herring and Charles Amissah White Ethnic Identification and Racial Attitudes by James E. Coverdill Regional Differences in Whites' Racial Policy Attitudes by Steven A. Tuch and Jack K. Martin The Racial Attitudes of African Americans Blacks, Whites, and the Changing of the Guard in Black Political Leadership by Lee Sigelman African-American Employers' Attitudes toward African-American Workers by Joleen Kirschenman Fifty Years after Myrdal: Blacks' Racial Policy Attitudes in the 1990s by Steven A. Tuch, Lee Sigelman, and Jack K. Martin References Index

About the Author

STEVEN A. TUCH is Associate Professor of Sociology at The George Washington University.

JACK K. MARTIN is Senior Research Scientist, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Survey Research Center at the University of Georgia. Both have written extensively on race relations and workplace issues, and they are currently co-Principal Investigators on a five-year NIAAA-funded research project investigating the factors that shape maladaptive alcohol use among African-Americans.

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?This anthology's 11 chapters offer a state of the art sociological perspective on racial attitudes at the end of the century....This volume effectively conveys the disarray of current thinking and current politics on the black-white question.?-MultiCultural Review

"This anthology's 11 chapters offer a state of the art sociological perspective on racial attitudes at the end of the century....This volume effectively conveys the disarray of current thinking and current politics on the black-white question."-MultiCultural Review

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