Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-273) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction, definitions and overview: Defining prejudice; Differences and prejudice -- Explaining prejudice, characteristics of the targeted groups: Religion and folklore explain group differences; Science explains group differences I, preliminary considerations; Science explains group differences II, the I.Q. debates and other recent issues -- Explaining prejudice, characteristics of the prejudiced person: Personality and prejudice, authoritarianism and its current legacy; Values and prejudice; Cognition and prejudice I, categorization and stereotyping; Cognition and prejudice II, stereotypes, social interaction, and change -- Explaining prejudice, intergroup relations: Interpersonal and intergroup relations, friends or categories; Intergroup effects, in-groups and out-groups; Theories of intergroup relations, implications for prejudice -- The effects of prejudice on identity and society: Self-worth, double-consciousness, and inequality, some consequences of being the target of prejudice; Whiteness, maleness, heterosexuality, some effects of prejudice on identity and society -- Conclusions, challenging prejudice: Undoing prejudice I, lessons from the three lenses; Undoing prejudice II, empowerment.