'I really felt white': Turning points in whiteness through interracial contact

Karyn D. Mckinney

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'I really felt white': Turning points in whiteness through interracial contact

Karyn D. Mckinney

Division of Education, Human Development & Social Sciences (Altoona)

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Interracial contact has been much debated as a possible solution to the stereotyping and prejudice that are part of the foundation of racial inequality. The focus of most of the research on interracial contact has been on whether such contact can change whites' attitudes. This paper, while exploring changes in whites' attitudes based on their contact with people of colour, also shows, through analysis of autobiographical writing by young whites, how interracial contact may change white perceptions of what it means to be white.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	167-185
Number of pages	19
Journal	Social Identities
Volume	12
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630600583361
State	Published - Mar 2006

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Sociology and Political Science

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