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Author Durrheim, Kevin.

Title Racial encounter : the social psychology of contact and desegregation / Kevin Durrheim and John Dixon.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 256 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-250) and index.
Contents Section A: 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 -- Section B: 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 -- Section C: 'Locating' the social psychology of contact and desegregation -- Dislocating identity: Desegregation and the transformation of place -- Conclusions: 'Racial preferences' and the tenacity of segregation.
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Subject Race relations -- Psychological aspects.
Race relations -- Psychological aspects.
Race relations.
Segregation -- Psychological aspects.
Segregation -- Psychological aspects.
Segregation.
Post-apartheid era -- South Africa.
Post-apartheid era.
South Africa.
Intergroup relations -- South Africa.
Intergroup relations.
South Africa -- Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dixon, John (John A.)
Other Form: Print version: Durrheim, Kevin. Racial encounter. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 0415305322 (DLC) 2005024641 (OCoLC)61451537
ISBN 9781135648329 (electronic book)
1135648328 (electronic book)
0415305322
9780415305327