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Psychologists, Race, and Housing in Postwar America
Author(s) -
Pickren Wade E.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2010.01681.x
Subject(s) - race (biology) , prejudice (legal term) , privilege (computing) , white privilege , sociology , social issues , white (mutation) , social psychology , political science , criminology , psychology , gender studies , law , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Housing in postwar America became a critical focal point for issues of race and social equality. Housing and race relations became a real‐world laboratory for psychologists and other social scientists, including several of the leaders of Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues , to examine developing theories of intergroup relations, especially as potential means to reduce prejudice. Further, it is argued that psychologists sought to impact emerging housing policy and to ameliorate an enduring social problem. The author concludes that the efforts by social scientists to provide workable solutions, typically from an unacknowledged place of White privilege, proved largely ineffective.