This chapter reviews and critiques recent work on prejudice, discrimination, and racism, with
an emphasis on evidence of continuing discrimination in the United States and efforts to …

▪ Abstract The study of race and US politics has always been controversial in the discipline.
Theory and evidence are often ignored or misconstrued. Furthermore, literatures that …

Welcome to the fourth edition of Essential Social Psychology! As in previous editions, we
have held strong and true to the ESP ethos we laid out in our very first edition over 10 years …

Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the
political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be …

Political behavior is the result of innumerable unnoticed forces and conscious deliberation is
often a rationalization of automatically triggered feelings and thoughts. Citizens are very …

Despite much positive change in the post civil rights era, US notions of racism and white
supremacy remain powerful elements of American culture. The adaptability and enduring …

Black men's lives are racialized contradictions. They are told that contemporary educational
and professional institutions—particularly historically White institutions (HWIs)—are places …

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists examines in detail how Whites
talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality and makes clear that color-blind …

In this conceptual paper, Diane Gusa highlights the salience of race by scrutinizing the
culture of Whiteness within predominately White institutions of higher education. Using …

Following the work of Blumer (1958), I extend and test a theory of prejudice based on
perceived threats to dominant racial or national groups by subordinate groups. Perceived …