With profound insight into the complexities of the human
experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of
research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of
prejudice. First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains
the standard work on discrimination. Now this classic study is
offered in a special unabridged edition with a new introduction by
Kenneth Clark of Columbia University and a new preface by Thomas
Pettigrew of Harvard University.Allport’s comprehensive and
penetrating work examines all aspects of this age-old problem: its
roots in individual and social psychology, its varieties of
expression, its impact on the individuals and communities. He
explores all kinds of prejudice-racial, religious, ethnic, economic
and sexual-and offers suggestions for reducing the devastating
effects of discrimination.The additional material by Clark and
Pettigrew updates the social-psychological research in prejudice
and attests to the enduring values of Allport’s original theories
and insights.
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Gordon W. Allport was
born in 1897 in Montezuma, Indiana. He received his A.B., A.M., and
Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University, did postgraduate work
abroad, and returned to Harvard in 1930, where he served as
professor of psychology until his death in 1967. During his
lifetime, Allport served as president of both the American and
Eastern Psychological Associations, director of the National
Opinion Research Center, and editor of the Journal of Abnormal and
Social Psychology. His other books included The Psychology of
Rumor, The Individual and His Religion, Personality, and
Becoming.