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What is Prejudice and Place about?

This chapter introduces the book's objective of critically examining White Americans' positionality in the relationship between racial prejudice and local geography. The chapter draws on structural theories of prejudice as a product of White people's commitment to defending their racial dominance. These insights inform a critique of the influential "racial threat" hypothesis, which typically positions White people as victims and Black people as inherently threatening. In response, the chapter recasts White people as viewers who interpret their surroundings through a racialized lens. Being explicit about White Americans' shared, subjective vantage point highlights how the diversity of White racial attitudes today is nonetheless rooted in a common structural position. The chapter concludes by discussing the book's case studies and mixed-methods approach to analyzing White Americans' racialized policy preferences as mediated by geography. Particular attention is given to the book's use of qualitative methods, including interpretivism and standpoint theory.

Author

Nina M. Yancy

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN