Author: Wachtel, Paul L.
Title: Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circle between Blacks and Whites
Description: New York / London, Routledge, (1999). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xi, 329 pp. A light crease to rear cover. Some light binding soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Impediments to Dialogue: Why We Talk Past Each Other; Talking About Racism: How Our Dialogue Gets Short-Circuited; Blaming the Victim? The Debate over Culture; Ideology and IQ: Moving Beyond the Bell Curve; Prejudice, Vulnerability, & Identity: Psychological Foundations of our Racial Image: Is Racism Inevitable? Motivational Foundations of White Racial Attitudes; Prejudice without Intention? "Cognitive" Foundations of White Racial Attitudes; The Complexities of the Black Response to Oppression: Strengths & Vulnerabilities, Pride & Self-Doubt; Integration, Assimilation & Separatism: The Ambiguities of Identity; The Seamless Web of Problems & Solutions: Crime & the Multiple Causes & Effects of Inequality; Separate Neighborhoods, Separate Destinies; Beyong Affirmative Action: Toward a Resolution of our Divisions; Breaking the Cycle of Poverty & Disadvantage: Head Starts, Handicaps, & the Importance of Ongoing Life Circumstances; Beyond Black and White.

Keywords: Social Psychology, United States, Sociology, Race, Racism, , , ,