Despite the de jure equality achieved in the second half of the 20th century, racial
discrimination and racist political movements persist. This has encouraged the orthodoxy …

One of the questions that the papers here as a whole invite is what is or what should be the
point of a critical social psychology of racism? What questions should such an approach …

Research on racial prejudice and discrimination within the discipline of psychology has
traditionally sought to understand why individual people engage in behaviours defined as …

Describes and critiques 3 theories of modern racism: J. Kovel's (1970) psychoanalytic
theory, DO Sear's (1988) social psychology theory, and D. Wellman's (1977) sociological …

Taking inspiration from the commemoration of Brown, the goal of this book has been to forge
an agenda for scientific research and intellectual activity devoted to the cause of liberation …

The sociology of racism is the study of the relationship between racism, racial discrimination,
and racial inequality. While past scholarship emphasized overtly racist attitudes and …

Discussion of race and racism in the social sciences has a long tradition. WEB DuBois's
often quoted line from The Souls of Black Folk:“the problem of the twentieth century is the …

Why is there a resurgence of racism in contemporary societies? How do ideas about race
and ethnicity serve to construct forms of social and political identity? These are some of the …

This entry includes the following topics: individual racism; institutional racism; cultural
racism; summary and conclusions.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights …

First published in 1977, Portraits of White Racism advanced a distinctively sociological
theory of racism. Based on five case histories, it critically assessed the prevailing social …