Difficult dialogs: Majority group members' willingness to talk about inequality with different minority groups

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 467-476

  Bikmen, Nida ^a   Sunar, Diane ^b  

^a DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Common ingroup identity; Cultural diversity; Intergroup contact; Power inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879842904     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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