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  • Strangers Next Door: Ethnic Relations in American Communities by Robin M. Williams Jr. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964). Reports the results of several community studies of discrimination and prejudice. Empirical results, theoretical discussions, and policy recommendations are included.

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  • Studies in Housing and Minority Groups edited by Nathan Glazer and Davis McEntire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960). Presents research reports on discrimination in housing prepared for the Commission on Race and Housing.

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  • Social Change and Prejudice by Bruno Bettelheim and Morris Janowitz (New York: The Free Press, 1964). Essentially an evaluation and extension of their first work,The Dynamics of Prejudice; includes a discussion of the changing manifestations of prejudice.

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  • Prejudice and Society by Earl Raab and Seymour M. Lipset (Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 1959). A readable discussion of how individuals’ social frames of reference produce and maintain prejudiced attitudes and behavior.

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  1. Gordon H. DeFriese
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GordonH. DeFriese (left) is a sociologist with the Department of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. His research interests are in work-role alienation among white-collar and professional workers, and institutional dependency within the military.

W. Scott Ford Jr. is assistant professor of sociology at the Institute for Social Research, Florida State University, Tallanhassee. His interests are community studies, urban sociology, and race relations.

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DeFriese, G.H., Ford, W.S. Open occupancy—What whites say, what they do. Trans-action 5, 53–56 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180450

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