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Racial Attitudes in America

Trends and Interpretations, Revised Edition

Howard Schuman author Lawrence D Bobo author Charlotte Steeh author Maria Krysan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Published:27th Mar '98

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This new edition brings fully up-to-date a book widely praised for its clear and objective presentation of changes in American racial attitudes during the second half of the twentieth century.

The book retains the division of racial attitudes into principles of equality, government implementation of those principles, and social distance, but adds questions concerning affirmative action and beliefs about sources of inequality. A conceptual section now opens the book, evidence on social desirability has been added, and a new chapter deals with cohort effects and with the impact of income, education, and gender. In key instances, randomized experiments are introduced that test hypotheses more rigorously than is ordinarily possible with survey data. Throughout, the authors have reconsidered earlier ideas and introduced new thinking.

From a review of the first edition:
A significant study, easily the best in its field, underpinning its statistical analysis with a strong sense of history.

-- Andrew Hacker * New York Review of Boo

ISBN: 9780674745698

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 608g

274 pages

2nd Revised edition