Two hundred venirepersons from the 12th Judicial Circuit in Bradenton, Florida completed the following measures: (1) one question that measured their level of support for the death penalty; (2) one question that categorized their death-qualification status; (3) 23 questions that measured their attitudes toward the death penalty (ATDP); (4) 22 questions that assessed their attitudes toward women...

Following the killing of George Floyd by police in US May 2020, a new anti-racism has erupted across world. While this is squarely focussed on dismantling anti-black racism, scholarship—especially western Europe—has for some decades now been emphasising racisms: Anti-South Asian Islamophobia and Sinophobia Britain, anti-Arab racism France anti-Turk anti-migrant racisms Germany, so on. These var...

Very few academics these days consider themselves to be racists, and calling someone a racist is deeply offensive. Yet racism in the universities is just as pervasive, just as dangerous, as it was a generation ago. Nowadays we seem to have a lot of racism but very few racists. How do you explain this paradox? The place to begin is to notice the essential difference between racist theory and rac...

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Recently there has been much literature pertaining to the psychodynamics of narcissism and its relation to psychopathological and normal psychic functions. While these models of the mind are primarily aimed at understanding individual behavior in the therapeutic relationship, they are also useful in clarifying one's thinking about racism, which can be approached both from an individual and soci...

Racism is a term to describe the views and actions of one group of people toward another based on the idea that the two groups are distinguished by “race” and that the group with racist views believes itself to be superior to the other. That belief in superiority is usually followed by exclusion of the other group from some or many aspects of the society in which the “superior race” is either i...