Prejudice is about politics: A collective action perspective

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (6):430-431 (2012)
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Abstract

In line with Dixon et al.'s argument, I contend that prejudice should be understood in broadly political rather than in narrowly psychological terms. First, what counts as prejudice is a political judgement. Second, studies of collective action demonstrate that it is in struggles, where subordinate groups together oppose dominant groups, that prejudice can be overcome

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