Benign bigotry : the psychology of subtle prejudice / / Kristin J. Anderson.

"While overt prejudice is now much less prevalent than in decades past, subtle prejudice - prejudice that is inconspicuous, indirect, and often unconscious - continues to pervade. Laws do not protect against subtle prejudice and, because of its covert nature, it is difficult to observe and freq...

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:ix, 354 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the changing place of prejudice : a migration underground
  • "Those people all look alike" : the myth of the other
  • "They must be guilty of something" : myths of criminalization
  • "Feminists are man-haters" : backlash myth-making
  • "Gays flaunt their sexuality" : the myth of hypersexuality
  • "I'm not a racist, I'm colorblind" : the myth of neutrality
  • "Affirmative action is reverse racism" : the myth of merit.