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Resistance to Affirmative Action: The Implications of Aversive Racism

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Affirmative Action in Perspective

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America is a country of paradoxes. The American ideology is strongly egalitarian, and yet the history of our country includes centuries of institutionalized inequality. Even today, persistent racial in justice in the face of democratic ideals truly remains the “American Dilemma” (Myrdal, 1944).

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Dovidio, J.F., Mann, J., Gaertner, S.L. (1989). Resistance to Affirmative Action: The Implications of Aversive Racism. In: Affirmative Action in Perspective. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9639-0_7

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