- Paperback: 202 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press; New edition edition (5 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0674145798
- ISBN-13: 978-0674145795
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 12.8 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,704,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sniderman and Carmines's discussion of stratagems to trick poll respondents into revealing their real views about race...makes the book worthwhile. Moreover, their sense of American sentiment is very likely right. Most Americans do agree, intellectually at least, that people should be judged for themselves, not for their race. -- Ellis Cose Newsweek [Paul Sniderman and Edward Carmines] have devised a novel polling experiment to test just how tolerant whites who express positive views of blacks really are. And they do it without tipping off respondents to what they're doing. They've described their test--and other equally innovative experiments--in an important and controversial new book. -- Richard Morin Washington Post A fascinating analysis of white Americans' attitudes on race, by two political scientists who argue strenuously...that our leaders would be more effective in forging multiracial consensus and coalition to improve social and economic access for all citizens if they appealed to 'moral principles that reach beyond race.' -- Kirkus Reviews
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If white Americans could reveal what they really thought about race, without the risk of appearing racist, what would they say? This book aims to illustrate aspects of white American thinking about the politics of race previously hidden from sight. Follow-up analysis points the way towards public policies that could gain wide support and reduce the gap between black and white Americans. The authors show that prejudice, although by no means gone, has lost its power to dominate the political thinking of white Americans. Concentrating on the new race-conscious agenda, they introduce a method of hidden measurement which reveals that liberals are just as angry over affirmative action as conservatives and that racial prejudice, while more common among conservatives, is more powerful in shaping political thinking of liberals. They also find that the good will many whites express to blacks is not fiegned but represents a genuine regard for blacks, which they will stand by even when given a perfectly acceptable excuse to respond negatively to blacks.
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