Introduction: motivational aspects of prejudice and racism / Cynthia Willis-Esqueda -- Social cognition, ethnic identity, and ethnic specific strategies for coping with threat due to prejudice and discrimination / Amado M. Padilla -- New directions in adversive racism research: persistence and pervasiveness / John F. Dovidio and Samuel L. Gaertner -- The role of race and racial prejudice in recognizing other people / John C. Brigham -- Addressing contemporary racism: the common ingroup identity model / Samuel L. Gaertner and John F. Dovidio
Summary
The study of prejudice and racism is one of the oldest interests of social psychology and continues as a major area of interest in the social sciences. Early approaches to the study of prejudice and racism focused on intra-individual processes and personality defects, and, motivational aspects of inter-ethnic conflict
