Reaching beyond Race.(Review) (book review)

By Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 191p. $22.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.

This book is part of a seemingly endless multisided argument among social scientists about the causes and trajectory of white American attitudes toward African Americans. The most prominent claims are, roughly, those of symbolic racism (whites are prejudiced because of a mix of racially innocent moral values and deeply seated racial aversion); group interests (whites are prejudiced because they fear that the advancement of blacks will injure the well-being ...

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