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Comments on “Arthur Brown”

Comments on “Arthur Brown” reasons as meaningless rationalizations of prejudice. Their refusals were important steps in a series or a complex of forces but they did not constitute the whole story. To some extent the employer’s refusal represented his own bias against the Negro but to some extent it was his unwillingness to risk trouble for himself. Though many white workers will accept a Negro as a fellow worker there are those who would not like to have a Negro as their supervisor. How large this group is and how deep their feelings run is not known. Hence the ignorance of the employer about the extent of prejudice among his employees permits projection of his own bias. In turn the unwillingness of a particular white worker to accept a Negro as his boss may be partly his own prejudice and partly his rehctance to risk the social disapproval of his fellows, which may be largely an imagined disapproval. The point is that in a competitive society in which superiority is indicated by superficial but easily observed signs, the Negro has the historical misfortune to be a symbol of low social status. For those whites whose own social status needs bolstering there may http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Social Issues Wiley

Comments on “Arthur Brown”

Katz, Daniel
Journal of Social Issues , Volume 1 (1) – Feb 1, 1945
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Wiley
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1945 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
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0022-4537
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1540-4560
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10.1111/j.1540-4560.1945.tb01959.x
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reasons as meaningless rationalizations of prejudice. Their refusals were important steps in a series or a complex of forces but they did not constitute the whole story. To some extent the employer’s refusal represented his own bias against the Negro but to some extent it was his unwillingness to risk trouble for himself. Though many white workers will accept a Negro as a fellow worker there are those who would not like to have a Negro as their supervisor. How large this group is and how deep their feelings run is not known. Hence the ignorance of the employer about the extent of prejudice among his employees permits projection of his own bias. In turn the unwillingness of a particular white worker to accept a Negro as his boss may be partly his own prejudice and partly his rehctance to risk the social disapproval of his fellows, which may be largely an imagined disapproval. The point is that in a competitive society in which superiority is indicated by superficial but easily observed signs, the Negro has the historical misfortune to be a symbol of low social status. For those whites whose own social status needs bolstering there may

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Published: Feb 1, 1945

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