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Symbolic Racism

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Throughout our history, white Americans have singled out Afro-Americans for particularly racist treatment. Of all the many immigrant nationalities that have come to these shores since the seventeenth century, Afro-Americans have consistently attracted the greatest prejudice based on their group membership and have been treated in the most categorically unequal fashion.

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Sears, D.O. (1988). Symbolic Racism. In: Katz, P.A., Taylor, D.A. (eds) Eliminating Racism. Perspectives in Social Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0818-6_4

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