| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: the ironic dynamics of race -- Talking about racism: how our dialogue gets short-circuited -- Blaming the victim? -- The debate over culture -- Ideology and IQ: moving beyond the Bell curve -- Is racism inevitable? Motivational foundations of white racial attitudes -- Prejudice without intention? "Cognitive" foundations of white racial attitudes -- The complexities of the black response to oppression: strengths and vulnerabilities, pride and self-doubt -- Integration, assimilation, and separatism: the ambiguities of identity -- Crime and the multiple causes and effects of inequality -- Separate neighborhoods, separate destinies -- Beyond affirmative action: toward a resolution of our divisions -- Breaking the cycle of poverty and disadvantage: head starts, handicaps, and the importance of ongoing life circumstances -- Beyond black and white. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-321) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Watchel challenges the orthodoxies that shape black and white opinion and liberal and conservative policies, and applies principles to solving racial tensions that may be applied to other groups beyond the United States. |
| Subject |
Racism -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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United States -- Race relations -- Psychological aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Race relations -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01086520
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Racism -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01086630
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wachtel, Paul L., 1940- Race in the mind of America. New York : Routledge, 1999 0415920000 (DLC) 98025715 (OCoLC)39195465 |
| ISBN |
0203455053 (electronic book) |
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9780203455050 (electronic book) |
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020342932X (electronic book) |
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9780203429327 (electronic book) |
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0415920000 (Cloth) |
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0415920019 (paperback) |
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