Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "racial attitudes"

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

Bobo, Lawrence D.; Charles, Camille Z. (SAGE Publications, 2009)

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. ...
Seeing Difference: The Effect of Economic Disparity on Black Attitudes Toward Latinos

Gay, Claudine (Blackwell Publishing, 2006)

Rapid growth in the size of the Latino population has increased the ethnic diversity of urban neighborhoods, transforming the residential experiences of many black Americans. The competition for scarce resources is considered ...
Thinking about Crime: Race and Lay Accounts of Lawbreaking Behavior

Thompson, Victor R.; Bobo, Lawrence D. (Sage Publications, 2011)

Lay or commonsense accounts of the origins of criminal behavior may play a key role in sustaining a strong public appetite for harsh criminal justice policies and undergird large black-white differences in opinion in this ...