Racial tension divides American society. Racial equality remains a distant goal. Although the potion of Black Americans has improved in recent years, the widespread enthusiasm for the Civil Rights ...movement has waned. Why has progress slowed? What makes racial problems in America so difficult to solve? A principal cause, according to The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes, is the way in which white Americans explain, or account for, the social conditions in which most black Americans find themselves. A substantial proportion of whites believe that stereotypes that Black Americans are relatively less well off because blacks do not try hard enough to better themselves or because of the difference due to genertics or to God's plan. Whites who hold such views have relatively little sympathy for programs designed to improve the social conditions. In contrast, whites who believe that Black Americans are kept back either by deliberate discrimination or by the accumulated social results of past discrimination are much more receptive to policies designed to help blacks. Using qualitative and quantitive data, this book explores the variety and extent of these explanations for social differences; it also describes how each explanation--or combination of explanations--influences a person's views on policies designed to bring about greater racial equality. This study promises to influence not only the course of future academic research on race relations but also the formulation of public policy to deal with racial problems. It reveals that the resistance of many whites to policies favorable to racial equality are not isolated phenomenon but instead is part of a comprehensive view of how society works. If strides toward racial equality are to be made in the foreseeable future, the insights provided here must be considered seriously by policy makers and be incorporated into their strategies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.
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A. Existing methods for the synthesis of m
A containing RNAs use tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF) for the deprotection of the 2'-silyl protecting groups. Since TBAF is nonvolatile, and is relatively non-polar, its use in the desilylation of RNA requires repeated desalting, which is tedious and gives low yields. Here we report the use of the volatile and neat triethylamine hydrogen fluoride (TEA-HF) for desilylation of m
A RNA synthesis. We found that the method is much simpler, and-in our hands-give significantly higher yield of RNA. Two major concerns for m
A RNA synthesis are depurination and Dimroth rearrangement. HPLC and MALDI MS of the RNA indicated that depurination is not a problem for the new method. The absence of Dimroth rearrangement is proven by RNA digestion followed by HPLC analysis of the nucleosides.
Examines the implications of common market integration, privatized resource management, and small business development policies for fishery-dependent communities in terms of long-term sustainability ...and participatory democracy.
The agenda for further work generated by the results of the Bay Area Survey (BAS) was a formidable one. It called for
refining the concept of explanatory modes to take account of multi-causal ...explanations;
making operational the three components of our conceptual modes—perceptions, explanations, and prescriptions— in a more effective way than was possible in the BAS;
testing, with the new operationalization, the analytic model that had been developed out of the in-depth interviews;
seeking to account for the sources of different explanatory modes, trying to determine the generality of the modes, and setting forth, finally, the implications of
The Components of Racial Prejudice Apostle, Richard A; Suelzle, Marijean; Piazza, Thomas ...
The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes,
04/2023
Book Chapter
Chances are good that if white Americans were questioned, a majority of them would speculate that less racial prejudice exists in America today than in the past. The response of black Americans to ...the same question is harder to predict. Given that they are still discriminated against and that their social status relative to whites has not improved substantially over the last decades, black Americans might express some skepticism in response to the assertion that racial prejudice has declined.
In fact, it is not known for sure whether the extent of racial prejudice is greater or smaller now than in
Thus far in our research we had discovered that how racial differences are explained is related to the policies prescribed as means to bring about greater racial equality. We also learned that ...perceptions of racial differences are associated with explanations of them. Our next step was to examine the relation between explanation and prescription when perception is also taken into account.
Our aim was to test the proposition that among people with similar perceptions of racial differences, their mode of explaining these differences is importantly related to how they respond to the social inequality experienced by blacks in America. Confirmation
