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Who Counts As "Them?": Racism and Virtue in the United States and.... Michele Lamont.

by Lamont, Michele; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 201Human Relations. Publisher: Contexts, 2003ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): African Americans | Americans -- Attitudes | Arabs -- France | French -- Attitudes | Immigrants -- Attitudes toward | Moral conditions | Muslims -- France | Race discrimination | RacismDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In the United States, black Americans are the typical targets of discrimination. In France, the victims are usually Arab immigrants. In both cases, prejudice against minorities has less to do with the color or national origin of the ostracized than with the need of whites and natives to preserve their own sense of moral self-worth." (CONTEXTS) The author examines racial images and stereotypes in the U.S. and France and concludes that "racist beliefs arise from the moral frameworks that people use to evaluate one another. Racist people, unlike more tolerant people, believe that members of a particular racial minority fail to meet these moral standards."
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.

Originally Published: Who Counts As "Them?": Racism and Virtue in the United States and..., Fall 2003; pp. 36-41.

"In the United States, black Americans are the typical targets of discrimination. In France, the victims are usually Arab immigrants. In both cases, prejudice against minorities has less to do with the color or national origin of the ostracized than with the need of whites and natives to preserve their own sense of moral self-worth." (CONTEXTS) The author examines racial images and stereotypes in the U.S. and France and concludes that "racist beliefs arise from the moral frameworks that people use to evaluate one another. Racist people, unlike more tolerant people, believe that members of a particular racial minority fail to meet these moral standards."

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