Attitudes in the fiber of everyday life: The discourse of racial evaluation and the lived experience of desegregation

American Psychologist

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 626-636

  Durrheim, Kevin ^a   Dixon, John ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PREJUDICE; RACE RELATIONS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 7444223462     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.59.7.626     Document Type: Review

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