Prejudice in Politics Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute

Name: Prejudice in Politics Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute
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ISBN: 9780674013292

ISBN-10: 0674013298

ISBN-13: 9780674013292

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lawrence D. Bobo, Mia Tuan

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This book presents a sociological study of how and why racial prejudice against members of a minority group comes to shape what happens to important political claims and aspirations of the group. Lawrence Bobo and Mia Tuan explore a lengthy controversy surrounding the fishing, hunting, and gathering rights of the Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. The controversy started in 1974, when two Chippewa Indians were arrested for off-reservation fishing, and persisted into the 1990s. It involved the efforts of the Chippewa to assert their traditional spearfishing rights, which met with angry, racially charged responses from whites. Bobo and Tuan develop a "group position" perspective on racial…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Mia Tuan is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon.



Preface


Prologue



Linking Prejudice and Politics



Return of the Chippewa: Foundations of the Treaty Rights Controversy



Between Prejudice and Self-Interest: Treaty Rights Salience and Public Opposition



Disentangling Racialized Politics: Group Position, Injustice, and Symbolic Racism



Protest, Mobilization, and Mass Compliance: Moving from Attitudes to Behavior



Race Politics as Group Position



Question Wording in the Chippewa Indian Treaty Rights Survey



Factorial Structure of Prejudice


Notes


References


Index