Prejudice, Politics, and the American Dilemma
- ISBN-10
- 0804724822
- ISBN-13
- 9780804724821
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 339
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Authors
- Paul M. Sniderman, Philip E. Tetlock
Description
It has been half a century since the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal's seminal work on race in America. The cleavage between the politics of race of the 1940s and the 1990s is that race has become a greater dilemma than ever before. This book is an attempt to contribute to a fresh understanding of prejudice, politics, and the American dilemma. It presents new lines of questions by deliberately inter-weaving two perspectives, the first taking up issues of race focusing on whites, the second on blacks. The contributors are drawn from several disciplines in the social sciences, sociologists, psychometricians, social and personality psychologists, demographers and political scientists of several persuasions. The book represents an important shift in perspectives, both theoretical and methodological, in the study of race and American politics.
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