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Zusatztext 'This is an excellent book. It is a joy to read on a number of levels. It is clear! thoughtful and weaves its way through the different literatures of racism and segregation in a subtle but surefooted manner. The breadth of the authors' scholarship shows through! as does the value of their use of a case study to focus everything around.' - Jonathan Potter! Professor of Discourse Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences! Loughborough University"This is a marvellous book. It is sharp! clear! bright-minded and deals with a very important issue for group relations in general: the psychology of segregation and desegregation. It is a major contribution to our new era (post 1990) understanding of contact and group relations in deeply divided societies." - Don Foster! PINS - Vol. 42! 2011 Informationen zum Autor Kevin Durrheim is Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa John Dixon is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Lancaster Klappentext By examining the processes of intergroup contact which arose in South Africa following the removal of official ethnic divides, and supporting it with evidence from the US, Racial Encounter offers a social psychological account of desegregation. Zusammenfassung By examining the processes of intergroup contact which arose in South Africa following the removal of official ethnic divides, and supporting it with evidence from the US, Racial Encounter offers a social psychological account of desegregation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part I. The Contact Hypothesis Reconsidered. The Contact Hypothesis as a Framework for Understanding the Social Psychology of Desegregation. Contact and the ‘Ecology’ of Everyday Relations. ‘You Have to be Scared when they’re in their Masses’: Working Models of Contact in Ordinary Accounts of Interaction and Avoidance. Part II: Attitudes to Desegregation Reconsidered. Attitudes Towards Desegregation as a Framework for Understanding the Social Psychology of Desegregation. Evaluative Practices: A Discursive Approach to Investigating Desegregation Attitudes. Lay Ontologizing: Everyday Explanations of Segregation and Desegregation. Group Differences in Narrating the ‘Lived Experience’ of Desegregation. Part II: ‘Locating’ the Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation. Dislocating Identity: Desegregation and the Transformation of Place. Conclusions: ‘Racial Preferences’ and the Tenacity of Segregation. ...
