From power to prejudice : the rise of racial individualism in midcentury America / Leah N. Gordon.

Show other versions (1)
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gordon, Leah N. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Race discrimination > United States > History > 20th century.
Prejudices > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 257 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Attitudes, structures, and "levers of change" : the social science of prejudice and race relations
  • "Data and not trouble" : the Rockefeller Foundation and the social science of race relations
  • The individual and the "general situation" : defining the race problem at the University of Chicago's Committee on Education, Training, and Research in Race Relations
  • The mature individual or the mature society : social theory, social action, and the race problem at Fisk University's Race Relations Institutes
  • "Education for racial understanding" and the meanings of integration in Howard University's Journal of Negro education
  • "To inoculate Americans against the virus of hate" : brotherhood, the war on intolerance, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews.