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Ethnic minorities often have been highly critical of research on problems concerning race relations. Controversy has occurred in areas such as intelligence (Jorgensen, 1973; Williams, 1974), personality and ethnic identity (Banks, 1976; Brand, Ruiz, & Padilla, 1974; Nobles, 1973), mental health (Gynther, 1972; Sue, Sue, & Sue, 1975), and family structure (Gordon, 1973; Trimble, 1976). Invariably, criticisms focus on the use of culturally biased measures, inattention to ethnic response sets, invalid interpretations of minority behavior from an Anglo-Saxon perspective, lack of norms for evaluating ethnic responses, and effects of the experimenter’s race on subjects’ behavior.
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Zane, N., Sue, S. (1986). Reappraisal of Ethnic Minority Issues. In: Seidman, E., Rappaport, J. (eds) Redefining Social Problems. Perspectives in Social Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2236-6_17
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