Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy

Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy

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Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy

dc.contributor.author	Bobo, Lawrence D.
dc.contributor.author	Charles, Camille Z.
dc.date.accessioned	2011-02-10T18:37:17Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.identifier.citation	Bobo, Lawrence D., and Camille Z. Charles. 2009. Race in the American mind: From the Moynihan report to the Obama candidacy. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 621(1): 243-259.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0002-7162	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4724025
dc.description.abstract	In 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed that the “racist virus in the American blood stream still afflicts us.” The authors assess the tenor of racial attitudes in white and black America across the ensuing four decades. Their core conclusion is paradoxical. On one hand, a massive positive change in social norms regarding race has taken place that dislodged Jim Crow ideology and now calls for integration and equality as the rules that should guide black-white interaction. On the other hand, negative stereotypes of African Americans, cultural (not structural or discrimination-based) accounts of black disadvantage, and deep polarization over the appropriate social policy response to racial inequality yield an ongoing legacy of tension and division. The authors link these trends in attitudes to broader changes in society (i.e., racial segregation, job discrimination, rates of intermarriage), patterns of intergroup and interpersonal behavior, and national political dynamics.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	African and African American Studies	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	doi:10.1177/0002716208324759	en_US
dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/bobo/pdf%20documents/RaceMind.pdf	en_US
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dc.subject	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	en_US
dc.subject	racial attitudes	en_US
dc.subject	stereotypes	en_US
dc.subject	segregation	en_US
dc.subject	discrimination	en_US
dc.subject	inequality	en_US
dc.subject	Barack Obama	en_US
dc.subject	Colin Powell	en_US
dc.title	Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Version of Record	en_US
dc.relation.journal	The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Bobo, Lawrence D.
dash.embargo.until	10000-01-01