Columbia and After Fact-finding Commission Appointed to Investigate the Disturbances at Columbia University in April and May, 1968, The Cox Commission. Crisis at Columbia. New York: Vintage, 1968. "American Youth: Its Outlook is Changing the World: A Special Issue," Fortune (January 1969). "Special Issue on the American University and Student Protest," American Behavioral Scientist, XI (May-June 1968). The New Left Newfield, J. A Prophetic Minority. New York: New American Library, 1966. Kennan, George. Democracy and the Student Left. New York: Bantam, 1968. Chapter IV-Black Militancy There is an abundant and increasing literature on black protest in America. The following works should be considered basic. Carmichael, Stokeley, and Charles V. Hamilton. Black Power; The Politics of A concise discussion of the need for black political and cultural auton- Clark, Kenneth B. Dark Ghetto; Dilemmas of Social Power. New York: An analysis, by a black social scientist, of the social, political, and eco- Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul On Ice. New York: McGraw-Hill-Ramparts Book, A collection of writings by the Minister of Information of the Black Dollard, John. Caste and Class in a Southern Town. Garden City, New York: A classic study, still useful, of race and racism in the South in the Essien-Udon, E. U. Black Nationalism. New York: Dell, 1962. A study of Black Nationalist movements in American history, with spe- Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963. Grant, Joanne, ed. Black Protest. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Premier An anthology of documents and writings on black protest from the i Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Grove Press, 1966. An indispendable account of the thought and development of Malcolm mous. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Report. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968. The Kerner Report. Indispendable for an understanding of the 1967 Waskow, Arthur I. From Race Riot to Sit-in. Garden City, New York: Historical analysis of the 1919 race riots and the non-violent civil rights Chapter V-The Racial Attitudes of White Americans General Introduction Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. New York: Macmillan and Free Press, 1968. For brief, informative entries on such topics as "Prejudice: The Concept" by Otto Klineberg, "Race Relations: Social-Psychological Aspects" by Thomas F. Pettigrew, and "Prejudice: Social Discrimination" by J. Milton Yinger. Simpson, George and J. Milton Yinger. Racial and Cultural Minorities. Third ed. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. Comprehensive and up-to-date general introduction to prejudice and discrimination. Personality and Prejudice Allport, Gordon W. The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, Mass.: Addison- Though published fifteen years ago, it remains the definitive social- Adorno, T. W., et. al. The Authoritarian Personality. New York: Harper and Most influential work examining prejudice from a psychoanalytic perspective. Brown, Roger. Social Psychology. New York: Free Press, 1965. Especially chapter 10. Summary of Adorno as well as methodological and conceptual criticisms inspired by The Authoritarian Personality. Pettigrew, Thomas F. "Personality and Socio-cultural Factors in Intergroup Attitudes: A Cross-national Comparison," Conflict Resolution, II, No. 1 (1958), pp. 29-42. Illustrates an application of the Smith et. al. (see below) functional approach to racial prejudice. Rokeach, Milton. Beliefs, Attitudes and Values. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1968. Research testing theory of perceived belief dissimilarity as a determinant of the selection of a target for prejudice. The Open and Closed Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1960. Analysis of the relationship between prejudice and rigid, dogmatic thinking. Smith, M. Brewster, Jerome Bruner and R. W. White. Opinions and Personality. New York: Wiley, 1956. Discussion of the psychological functions of social attitudes broader than the psychoanalytically oriented Adorno. Prejudice and the Social Context Bell, Daniel, ed. The Radical Right. New York: Doubleday, 1963. Contains a number of essays which trace the sources of rootlessness and status anxiety in American society which may foster a predisposition to participate in racist social movements. Bettelheim, Bruno and Morris Janowitz. Social Change and Prejudice. New York: Free Press, 1964. An account of the psychological effects of social change upon racial and religious intolerance. Chapter 2 reviews studies of the effects of social mobility upon prejudice. Blalock, Hubert M. Toward A Theory of Minority Group Relations. New York: Wiley, 1967. A methodologically sophisticated discussion of personality and preju- Williams, Robin. Strangers Next Door. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Description of a series of empirical studies which examine the effects of Public Opinion Surveys of Racial Attitudes Brink, William and Louis Harris. Black and White. New York: Simon and See especially Chapter 5, "White Attitudes: Political Cross Fire" and The Negro Revolution in America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Especially, Chapter 9, "What Whites Think of Negroes." Pettigrew, Thomas F. "Parallel and Distinctive Changes in Anti-Semitic and Anti-Negro Attitudes" in C. H. Stember, ed. Jews in the Mind of America. New York: Basic Books, 1966. A discussion of changing white racial attitudes which convincingly debunks many of the myths concerning the "white backlash.” Sheatsley, Paul B. "White Attitudes Toward the Negro," Daedalus, XCV, Very useful summary of trends in white racial attitudes over the past 25 years. Finally, newspaper columns by George Gallop and Lou Harris and occasional articles in weekly magazines-Newsweek especially-provide sensitive barometers of changing racial beliefs and feelings. More detailed information is published as the Gallup Monthly Political Index. Chapter VI-White Militancy There is a relatively small amount of literature on the militant white. This is especially true in the case of the organization and structure of contemporary white militant groups. The following works are helpful: Albares, Richard P. Nativist Paramilitarism in the United States: The Minutemen Organization. University of Chicago: Center for Social Organization Studies, 1968. The most thorough analysis of the Minutemen. Bell, Daniel, ed. The Radical Right. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1963, 1964. An influential collection of essays on rightwing politics in the U.S., guided by the questionable assumption of the pathological character of "extremist" politics. Chalmers, David M. Hooded Americanism. Chicago: Quadrangle Paperbacks, 1968. A thorough history of the various Ku Klux Klans, from Reconstruction to the present. Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism. New An indispensable study of Nativist though and action in the United Hofstadter, Richard. The Paranoid Style in American Politics. New York: Historical analysis of extreme political ideologies in the U.S. Similar in conception to the Bell collection. Vander Zanden, James W. Race Relations in Transition. New York: Random House, 1965. Contains materials on the modern Klan and White Citizens Councils. Chapter VII-The Police in Protest The following are part of a growing collection of information on the police, their actions and interactions: April 27 Investigating Commission, Dr. Edward J. Sparling, Chairman. Dissent and Disorder: A Report to the Citizens of Chicago on the April 27 Peace Parade. Chicago, August 1, 1968. The report of a blue ribbon committee investigation of police violence against a peace march in Chicago during April, 1968. Black, Donald Jonathan. Police Encounters and Social Organization: An Observation Study. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, 1968. The results of systematic field observation of police-public contacts. Bordua, David J. The Police. New York: Wiley, 1967. A collection of important essays on the contemporary police, it in- Chevigny, Paul. Police Power: Police Abuses in New York City. New York: A lawyer's report on the almost impossibility of fighting police malpractices through the courts. Cray, Ed. The Big Blue Line: Police Power vs. Human Rights. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967. A compendium of recent police malpractices. Jacobs, Paul. Prelude to Riot; A View of Urban America from the Bottom. New York: Vintage, 1968. A study of the conditions of poverty and bureaucracy which lie behind Levy, Burton. "Cops in the Ghetto: A Problem of the Police System," An unhopeful reappraisal of police community relations efforts. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Report. New York: Bantam, 1968. The Kerner Commission's report and interpretation of 1967 riots. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, Chicago Study Team. Rights in Conflict. Chicago, November 18, 1968. Also available in trade editions; for example, New York: Bantam, 1968. Daniel Walker's celebrated report on the events surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August, 1968. Niederhoffer, Arthur. Behind the Shield: The Police in Urban Society. New York: Doubleday, 1967. A study of police training and recruitment in New York City. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. Task Force Report: The Police. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967. On the organization, personnel, resources, and relations with the community. Reiss, Albert J., Jr. "How Common Is Police Brutality?" Trans-action (July- Based on the same data as Black's study, this article shows how fre- Skolnick, Jerome H. Justice without Trial. New York: Wiley, 1966. A study of police use of discretionary powers. Westley, William A. The Police: A Sociological Study of Law, Custom and Morality. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 1951. A study of a midwestern police department focused on how the police sub-culture sustains illegal police practices. Wilson, James Q. Varieties of Police Behavior. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968. A case study of police in eight communities; their styles of policing. |