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Gordon Allport
Emphasis on racial prejudice. A feeling, favourable or unfavourable, toward a person or thing, prior to or not based on, actual experience.
prejudice is an emotional antipathy based on an inaccurate and rigidly held stereotype which resists modification.
prejudice
Van den Berghe
a defence or racial stereotypes and their function.
racial stereotypes are functional
Blumer
racial prejudice derives from a sense of group of one racial group have towards members of another group. shift from individual feelings to collective process by which a racial group comes to define another group
emphasis on awareness of group position
Bonilla-Silva
contests view that racism is a phenomenon fundamentally rooted at the level of ideas (e.g. beliefs about racial inferiority/ superiority)
The narrow focus on ideas has reduced study of racism mostly to psychology, resulting in a simplistic view of way racism operates in society.
Wellman
white people are unaware of extent to which their advantaged position is based on race.
The essential feature of racism is not hostility or misperception, but rather the defense of a system from which advantage is derived on the basis of race
racism is rational
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