Racial Attitudes in America

Trends and Interpretations

Howard Schuman

Charlotte Steeh

Lawrence D. Bobo

    Schuman, Steeh, and Bobo have performed a singular service. Social scientists, and citizens at large, interested in the American dilemma are in their debt: for the completeness of the record they have compiled of American racial attitudes over the past four decades, for the care and clarity with which they have presented that record, and for the objectivity and sophistication with which they have interpreted it. Their analysis of American racial attitudes is, of course, not complete; it is merely indispensable.
       --Paul M. Sniderman, American Journal of Sociology

    For anyone seeking to examine the evolution of American racial attitudes since the 1940s, this painstakingly precise book is the place to begin.
       --David J. Garrow, Journal of American Ethnic History

    A welcome arrival...Informative and reflective, Racial Attitudes in America will be immensely useful to anyone interested in contemporary social history, as well as race relations specifically.
       --Abigail M. Thernstrom, The Public Interest

    A significant study, easily the best in its field, underpinning its statistical analysis with a strong sense of history.
       --Andrew Hacker, The New York Review of Books

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Howard Schuman is Professor of Sociology and Research Scientist, emeritus, at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center.

Charlotte Steeh is Researcher in Survey Methodology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.