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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"racial prejudice"”.
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Racial Prejudice As A Function Of Religious Orientation Among College Students
… Fundamentalism and Christian orthodoxy) and racial discrimination. Participants were asked to rate one of three scenarios depicting an individual of one of three races (White, Hispanic or Black). The scenarios depicted an individual who had committed an illegal activity. A significant …
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Racial prejudice toward Asian Americans in U.S. children's literature.
This study examined racial prejudice in American children's books toward Asian Americans. The sample consisted of contemporary and historical fiction books for children in two age groups: preschool through grade three and grades four through six, which are listed under Asian American fiction …
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Discourses of racial prejudice : an analysis of discussions on open schooling
… - and their functions - within the discourses. Racial prejudice was of particular interest, and the topic of Open Schooling was used because of its significance within the present South African context. The volatile nature of the topic was expected to generate affective involvement in the …
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Symbolic Racism 1986-2000: How and Why Racial Prejudice is Changing
Recent racial attitude research has focused on whites' increasing support for the principles of racial equality and lack of support for programs meant to bring about racial equality. As one explanation for this gap some researchers have hypothesized that a new form of symbolic racism with origins …
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Interracial Contact Effects on Racial Prejudice among Students at Selective Colleges and Universities
This dissertation examined interracial contact and racial prejudice among white, black, Asian, and Latino college students at 28 elite colleges and universities in the United States. The study used longitudinal analyses to identify how interracial contact among college students influenced students' …
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Predictors of racial prejudice : a meta-analysis of the influence of religion and political orientation
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Social Beliefs, Agonistic Goals, Anger, and Biased Perceptions of Outgroups: A Social Action Theory of Covert Racial Prejudice
<p>Racial prejudice and discrimination are an important societal and public health problem. Approaches to understanding the origins of prejudice and discrimination have focused on attitudes, both overt (explicit) and covert (implicit). But attitudes correlate only modestly with implicit biases and …
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Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse
… the black disfranchisement, segregation, and racial violence defended by Page, Dixon, Calhoun, Smith, and Bruce. Chapter Six interprets Chesnutt's critique of sectional conflict and the ""New South Creed"" in his 1905 novel The Colonel's Dream along with Henry Grady's 1886 ""New South"" speech …
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The effects of the relationship between racial identity and the nature and frequency of interracial contact on racial prejudice and social distance
… theory, this study looked at the effects of racial identity on contact and prejudice. The sample consisted of 826 UCT students who belonged to the White and African population groups. Their mean age was 20.50 and they were 52.54% females and 47.46% males. A pilot study using 42 participants …
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A COR DA PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DO CCA/UFPB: UM ESTUDO SOBRE AS QUESTÕES ETNICAS E PRECONCEITO
In Brazil, there are still many prejudices about the african-Brazilian community. Our society is permeated by the culture and ideology brought by Portuguese colonialism, this demonstrates a prevailing white domination until the present day in different social segments, even after the end of slavery …
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A congregational model for racial reconciliation in the Church
This dissertation examines the state of racial reconciliation in the Christian church in the United States and suggests a congregational approach to better deal with the sin of racial prejudice still present in the church, both individually and corporately. Chapter 1 offers an introduction to the …
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In-Group/Out-Group Dynamics of Native American Mascot Endorsement
… relationships between team names and mascots on prejudice and discrimination. This study proposed that the multiple social categories created by manipulating the endorsement/opposition of Native mascots by Native and White college students at a university with a Native mascot, would allow for the …
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Racialized Reality: Crime News and Racial Stereotype Framing
… negative stereotypes in crime news triggers racial prejudice and bias towards African Americans. Participants of this study will consist of current students at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. The findings suggest that knowing the race of a potential criminal assailant influences …
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Bridging the gap : the role of the private sector in track-two diplomacy and South Africa's political transition
… and a peace agreement, ending decades of racial prejudice and violence. What is so interesting about the South African case study is not only the success of the unofficial negotiation processes, but the specific roles played by members of big business, both as participants and as …
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Prejudice, contact and attitude change in South Africa : a study of integrated schools in the Western Cape
… relationship between levels of integration and racial prejudice in former Model C, desegregated schools. The sample consisted of 1119 black African, 'Coloured', Afrikaans speaking white and English-speaking white learners from desegregated high schools in Cape Town. ·A pilot study was conducted …
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Reasons for Collaboration Among European and African American Greek Councils
… indicated that lack of knowledge ofthe cross racial council's member organizations and members ofthe organizations and racial prejudice were inhibitors to coUaboration. Philanthropy and community service, as well as, events for the entire Greek system were reasons for collaboration.</p>
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Individual differences in children's group perceptions and peer preferences as a function of prejudice level
… study examined relationships between level of racial prejudice, as measured by the Multiple-Response Racial Attitude Measure (MTRA: Doyle & Aboud, 1995), and "White" children's (a) judgments of individual group members (i.e., stereotyping), (b) perceptions of trait variance and of trait …
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Towards Implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action in Law Schools: A Settler Harm Reduction Approach to Racial Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Legal Orders in Canadian Legal Education
… However, processes of social categorization and racialization subordinate Indigenous peoples and their legal orders in Canadian legal education. These processes present a barrier to the implementation of the Calls. To ethically and respectfully implement these Calls, faculty and administration …
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Beyond the Margins of the Model Minority: The Development and Validation of the East Asian American Situational Judgment Test
… in creating empirically valid measures of racial prejudice. In general, there has been limited research on workplace experiences for Asian Americans, despite this group being one of the fastest-growing racial minorities in the United States. Existing measures of prejudice can be susceptible …
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Movement Before the Movement: Black Hospitals in Kansas City, 1890-1940
… modern medical treatment, free from judgment and racial prejudice. Black physicians established these hospitals as early as 1898, and the Black communities in the area supported them throughout the twentieth century. This paper argues that community grassroots organizing, and support of these …
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