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Racial Encounter : the Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation.

The political and legislative changes which took place in South Africa during the 1990s, with the dissolution of apartheid, created a unique set of social conditions. As official policies of segregation were abolished, people of both black and white racial groups began to experience new forms of soc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Durrheim, Kevin
Otros Autores: Dixon, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Racial Encounter The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; Section A The contact hypothesis reconsidered; 2 The contact hypothesis as a framework for understanding the social psychology of desegregation; 3 Contact and the 'ecology' of everyday relations; 4 'You have to be scared when they're in masses': working models of contact in ordinary accounts of 'racial' interaction and avoidance; Section B Attitudes to desegregation reconsidered.
  • 5 Attitudes towards desegregation as a framework for understanding the social psychology of desegregation6 Evaluative practices: a discursive approach to investigating desegregation attitudes; 7 Lay ontologizing: everyday explanations of segregation and opposition to desegregation; 8 Group differences in narrating the 'lived experience' of desegregation; Section C 'Locating' the social psychology of contact and desegregation; 9 Dislocating identity: desegregation and the transformation of place; 10 Conclusion: 'racial preferences' and the tenacity of segregation.
  • Appendix: Methods used in the interviews and observational studiesEndnotes; References; Index.