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Justice in America - The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites (Paperback)
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Justice in America - The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
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As reactions to the O. J. Simpson verdict, the Rodney King beating,
and the Amadou Diallo killing make clear, whites and African
Americans in the United States inhabit two different perceptual
worlds, with the former seeing the justice system as largely fair
and color blind and the latter believing it to be replete with bias
and discrimination. Drawing on data from a nation-wide survey of
both races, the authors tackle two important questions in this
book: what explains the widely differing perceptions, and why do
such differences matter? They attribute much of the racial chasm to
the relatively common personal confrontations that many blacks have
with law enforcement - confrontations seldom experienced by whites.
And more importantly, the authors demonstrate that this racial
chasm is consequential: it leads African Americans to react much
more cynically to incidents of police brutality and racial
profiling, and also to be far more skeptical of punitive anti-crime
policies ranging from the death penalty to three-strikes laws.
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