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Trust in Black America : race, discrimination, and politics / Shayla C. Nunnally.
LIBRA E185.615 .N86 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nunnally, Shayla C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Attitudes.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Psychology.
- African Americans--Socialization.
- Trust--Political aspects--United States.
- Trust.
- Trust--Social aspects--United States.
- Political socialization--United States.
- Political socialization.
- Trust--Social aspects.
- Trust--Political aspects.
- Socialization.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- The More Citizens Trust their government, the better democracy functions. However, African Americans have long suffered from the lack of equal protection by their government, and the racial discrimination they have faced breaks down their trust in democracy. Based on the premise that racial discrimination breaks down trust in a democracy, Trust in Black America examines the effect of race on African Americans' lives. Nunnally analyzes public opinion data to argue that the uncertainty, risk, and unfairness of institutionalized racial discrimination has led African Americans to have a fundamentally different understanding of American race relations, demonstrating that race and racial discrimination have broken down trust in American democracy. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : race, risk, and discrimination
- Explaining Blacks' (dis)trust : a theory of discriminative racial-psychological processing
- Being Black in America : racial socialization
- Trust no one : navigating race and racism
- Trusting bodies, racing trust
- The societal context
- The political context
- Conclusion : in whom do Black Americans trust?
- Appendix A: NPSS descriptive statistics of survey sample
- Appendix B: Survey sample and U.S. census quota matching.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814758656
- 0814758657
- 9780814758663
- 0814758665
- 9780814759301
- 0814759300
- 9780814759318
- 0814759319
- OCLC:
- 724667394
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