Risk and reluctance in criticizing minorities

Only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement did significant numbers of majoritarian Americans begin to acknowledge, restrain, correct, and outlaw their biases and injustices toward minorities. Perlmutter discusses how that progress did not come about by spontaneous benignity, or without the crea...

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Published in:Society (New Brunswick) 2006-03, Vol.43 (3), p.39-44
Main Author: Perlmutter, Philip
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affirmative action
American history
Apologies
Christianity
Civil rights
Criticism
Demonstrations & protests
Discrimination
Ethnic Groups
Human rights
Injustice
Minorities
Minority Groups
Politics
Prejudice
Racial Relations
Racism
Reforms
Risk
Sexism
Social change
Social research
Society
U.S.A
United States of America
Values
Xenophobia
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Summary:Only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement did significant numbers of majoritarian Americans begin to acknowledge, restrain, correct, and outlaw their biases and injustices toward minorities. Perlmutter discusses how that progress did not come about by spontaneous benignity, or without the creation of new forms of prejudice and a reluctance to examine certain intergroup differences and unintended negative consequences of some societal reforms.
ISSN:0147-2011
1936-4725
DOI:10.1007/BF02687594