Section A: The contact hypothesis reconsidered -- The contact hypothesis as a framework for understanding the social psychology of desegregation -- Contact and the 'ecology' of everyday relations -- 'You have to be scared when they're in their masses': Working models of contact in ordinary accounts of interaction and avoidance -- Section B: Attitudes to Desegregation reconsidered -- Attitudes towards desegregation as a framework for understanding the social psychology of desegregation -- Evaluative practices: A discursive approach to investigating desegregation attitudes -- Lay Ontologizing: Everyday explanations of segregation and desegregation -- Group differences in narrating the 'lived experience' of desegregation -- Section C: 'Locating' the social psychology of contact and desegregation -- Dislocating identity: Desegregation and the transformation of place -- Conclusions: 'Racial preferences' and the tenacity of segregation
Summary
The political and legislative changes which took place in South Africa during the 1990s, with the dissolution of apartheid, created a unique set of social conditions. As official policies of segregation were abolished, people of both black and white racial groups began to experience new forms of social contact and intimacy. By examining these emerging processes of intergroup contact in South Africa, and evaluating related evidence from the US, Racial Encounter offers a social psychological account of desegregation. It begins with a critical analysis of the traditional theories an
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