White Privilege Awareness and Efficacy to Reduce Racial Inequality Improve White Americans' Attitudes Toward African Americans

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-27

  Stewart, Tracie L ^a   Latu, Ioana M ^b   Branscombe, Nyla R ^c   Phillips, Nia L ^d   Ted Denney, H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^e GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; RACIAL SEGREGATION; STUDENT;

EID: 84858681531     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2012.01733.x     Document Type: Article

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