Horizontal hostility: Multiple minority groups and differentiation from the mainstream

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 339-358

  White, Judith B ^a   Schmitt, Michael T ^b   Langer, Ellen J ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergroup relations; Minority identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745282105     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430206064638     Document Type: Article

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