NCJ Number
148429
Date Published
1993
Length
328 pages
Annotation
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the problems caused by prejudiced attitudes, racist beliefs, and acts of discrimination, including racial jokes and ethnic slurs, overt discrimination, and racially-motivated violence.
Abstract
The book examines topics that form the foundation of the study of race and ethnic group relations, including the analysis of hate prejudice and violence in the past and the present, the foundation of race of a scientific concept, and the foundation of racism (which views race as a social concept). Other topics addressed by the author include the meaning of ethnicity and ethnic groups, attitudes, stereotyping, and the manifestations of hate prejudice ranging from discrimination to aggression and scapegoating.