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Contemporary racism in Australia: the experiences of Aborigines
In recent decades, social psychologists have suggested that contemporary racism is more subtle in nature than it had been in previous times. However, such theorizing has been from the perspective of the perpetrators. The present study follows a small number of other studies that have focused on the perspective of the victims of racism. It investigated the experiences of racism reported by 34 Aboriginal Australians during semi-structured, open-ended interviews. The data suggest that racism is experienced commonly and frequently by the participants and that much of it is overt or old-fashioned rather than subtle and modern. It is argued that if the data are reflective of what happens in intergroup encounters, social scientists may have embraced the theories of modern racism too readily. This may have contributed to the maintenance of social institutions that impact negatively on the minority populations in the community.
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Personality and social psychology bulletinVolume
29Issue
4Pagination
474 - 486Publisher
SAGE PublicationsLocation
Thousand Oaks, Calif.Publisher DOI
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0146-1672eISSN
1552-7433Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2003, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Inc.Usage metrics
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