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This book is intended both as supplementary reading for courses and as a practical guidebook for individuals and programs interested in reducing prejudice and improving intergroup relations. It provides the only comprehensive review and compilation of techniques of improving intergroup relations. There's a huge amount of literature on the causes and nature of prejudice, reflecting great interest in the topic, but the literature on prejudice reduction is more scattered, spread across a range of theoretical and applied sources. This book brings these literatures together with an emphasis on helping to elucidate what works and why.
A Brief History of Intergroup Relations
A Brief History of Intergroup Relations
In the spring of 1991, a Black motorist named Rodney King was stopped by the Los Angeles police after a high-speed chase (Caproni & Finley, 1997). The officers later testified that King resisted their commands. Their response was to beat him with their nightsticks and kick him repeatedly. His face was fractured in 15 places and one of his legs was broken. The beating was videotaped by a bystander and resulted in two trials for four of the officers. In the first trial, an all-White jury acquitted the four officers, all of whom were White. Two of the officers were later convicted of violating King's civil rights in the second trial. When the verdict ...
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