Kevin Durrheim, John Dixon

Racial Encounter

The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The political and legislative changes which took place in South Africa during the 1990s, with the dissolution of apartheid, created a unique set of social conditions. As official policies of segregation were abolished, people of both black and white racial groups began to experience new forms of social contact and intimacy. By examining these emerging processes of intergroup contact in South Africa, and evaluating related evidence from the US, "Racial Encounter" offers a social psychological account of desegregation. It begins with a critical analysis of the traditional theories and research models used to understand desegregation: the contact hypothesis and race attitude theory. It then analyses every day discourse about desegregation in South Africa, showing how discourse shapes individuals' conception and management of their changing relationships and acts as a site of ideological resistance to social change. The connection between place, identity and re-creation of racial boundaries emerge as a central theme of this analysis. This book will be of interest to social psychologists, students of intergroup relations and all those interested in post-apartheid South Africa.

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By examining the processes of intergroup contact which arose in South Africa following the removal of official ethnic divides, and supporting it with evidence from the US, Racial Encounter offers a social psychological account of desegregation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415305327
• ISBN-10: 0415305322
• Artikelnr.: 21873281

Autorenporträt

Kevin Durrheim is Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa John Dixon is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Lancaster

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I. The Contact Hypothesis Reconsidered. The Contact
Hypothesis as a Framework for Understanding the Social Psychology of
Desegregation. Contact and the 'Ecology' of Everyday Relations. 'You Have
to be Scared when they're in their Masses': Working Models of Contact in
Ordinary Accounts of Interaction and Avoidance. Part II: Attitudes to
Desegregation Reconsidered. Attitudes Towards Desegregation as a Framework
for Understanding the Social Psychology of Desegregation. Evaluative
Practices: A Discursive Approach to Investigating Desegregation Attitudes.
Lay Ontologizing: Everyday Explanations of Segregation and Desegregation.
Group Differences in Narrating the 'Lived Experience' of Desegregation.
Part II: 'Locating' the Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation.
Dislocating Identity: Desegregation and the Transformation of Place.
Conclusions: 'Racial Preferences' and the Tenacity of Segregation.