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Benign Bigotry: The Psychology of Subtle Prejudice
While overt prejudice is now much less prevalent than in decades past, subtle prejudice prejudice that is inconspicuous, indirect, and often unconscious continues to pervade our society. Laws do not protect against subtle prejudice and, because of its covert nature, it is difficult to observe and frequently goes undetected by both perpetrator and victim. Benign Bigotry use...more
Hardcover, 366 pages
Published
December 31st 2009
by Cambridge University Press
(first published 2009)
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Books on various kinds of oppression in the United States are a dime a dozen, and typically focus on the macro level- studies on pay gaps, essays about the drug war, statistics on race-based sentencing. Rarely do they focus on what's going on behind the statistics. And while I believe that overt discrimination is alive and well (just sit in a room with a bunch of white guys for a while and see how long it takes them to make a gay joke, black joke, or woman joke), I think much of the discriminati...more
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