The Racist Albatross

The racist patient.

TO THE EDITOR: Twenty-five years ago, I faced a situation similar to Jain’s (1). My experience involved a horrid anti-Semite; I was raised with Holocaust survivors. I finally asked my attending to be reassigned. He said that I was a physician and must fulfill my responsibilities to my patient regardless of who and what he was. My personal feelings were immaterial. My attending was right. Jain’s...

Attributing Harm to Racist Speech

The Albatross Communication System (ACS)

Welcome to the Albatross Communication System! We’ve labored hard to bring you this exciting, and reliable product, from our laboratory to your home and your heart. The ACS is particularly tailored to withstand large BER fluctuations, competing radio traffic, and guarantees reliability to the applications that require it. We hope that our sample file transfer application will whet your appetite...

Explaining Perceptions of Racist Speech

This two-part investigation evaluated four different explanations potentially governing theory on deprecating speech: social identity, expectancy violation, complexity-extremity, and desensitization. To test the descriptive and predictive usefulness of the first three theories, 614 participants made attributions of the perceived harm of actual racist slurs targeted at African, Asian, or Hispani...

Some Results from the Swedish "Albatross" Cruise)

SIX YEARS AGO, late in November, 1947, the Swedish research ship, the 1,450-ton motor schooner "Albatross," on its round-the-world cruise entered the harbor of Honolulu, where we had a magnificent reception. Two years later, in December, 1949, I was invited over here from the Mainland to give a preliminary survey ,of the main results of the cruise obtained through work in the Oceanographic Inst...