Is It Really Racism?: The Origins of White Americans' Opposition to Race-Targeted Policies

1997/01/01 by David O. Sears, Colette van Laar, Colette Van Laar +2 · 355 citations
Social Sciences · #Art history #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Gender studies #History #Law #Media studies #Opposition (politics) #Political science #Politics #Public opinion #Race (biology) #Racism #Social and Cultural Dynamics #Sociology #White (mutation)

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/297785

published in Public Opinion Quarterly 61(1, Special Issue on Race), 16 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

DAVID O. SEARS, COLETTE VAN LAAR, MARY CARRILLO, RICK KOSTERMAN; Examinations of Core Concepts and Processes Is It Really Racism?: The Origins of White Ame

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