PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psy, Symbolic Racism
10 Dec 2020
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In 1996, national geographic magazine featured a story about toronto, ontario. While the article itself was quite complimentary toward the canadian city, quotes were included from known holocaust denier ernst zundel. Zundel blamed blacks in canada for rapes and drive-by shootings, and reportedly stated, i"m objecting to allowing hordes of racially unabsorbable populations to invade the living space of a specific race. in 2003, zundel was deemed a threat to. He was deported back to germany in march 2005. Societal standards and values are changing, so that blatant racism is increasingly less acceptable. But racism can also be much more subtle, lurking beneath surfaces and behind corners. Subtle, undercover forms of racism can be just as hurtful as more blatant forms, in part because their subtlety allows them to slip through people"s defenses. Daniel katz and kenneth braly found that white college students viewed the average white. Yet they saw the average black american as superstitious, ignorant, lazy, and happy-go-lucky.
