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By Jack Levin

ISBN-10: 0306444712

ISBN-13: 9780306444715

ISBN-10: 1489961089

ISBN-13: 9781489961082

Howard seashore! The valuable Park Jogger! The Assassination of Alan Berg! Vincent Chin's homicide! The Portland Skinhead Slaying! Headlines scream of the newest in a wave of hate crime assaults. Hate crime-violence aimed toward members simply because they're contributors of a selected staff - have been as soon as thought of the infrequent unlawful activities of a small yet vocal collection of extremists who thrived on hating minorities. not more. Hate crimes were sweeping the state - in addition to the area. they're taking place in even the main not likely of areas. while collage campuses at one time epitomized the lofty rules of tolerance, range, and idealism, they've got now develop into the repositories of hatred and department. Hate is hip on campus, as evidenced not just by means of the recognition of racist and misogynistic track, yet via the new rash of assaults opposed to blacks, ladies, Asians, Latinos, Jews, and gays. those perceptive authors step again to bare how the campus of hate has turn into a microcosm for the area at huge. This divulge through Jack Levin, one in every of America's best sociologists and co-author of Mass homicide: America's starting to be threat, and Jack McDevitt, America's most desirable authority on hate crimes, explores the spreading venom of prejudice and bigotry in our society and the realm. They proclaim that political correctness - as in tolerance of variety - isn't any longer deemed trendy yet, quite, out of date. geared up hate teams were taking our alienated formative years by means of hurricane. yet past bemoaning our current difficulty, Levin and McDevitt set forth functional directions on tips on how to stem the emerging tide of hate. those specialists persuasively argue that because the monetary pie shrinks, a brand new kind of terrorism is leaving a path of bloodshed and destruction in its wake. For somebody who's diverse, the message of this new model of terrorism is unmistakable: both flee or be killed. those brave and provocative analysts strength us to stand a spiraling challenge round us in addition to the prejudices within

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Defeat in the face of harassment and persecution. However, the cost in both psychological and economic terms may be prohibitive. In a larger sense, we all lose when victims are frightened away by the acts of hatemongers. To assure our own rights, we must also be able and willing to protect the constitutional rights of all citizens, including those groups we, as individuals, may dislike. Psychologists suggest that rape is a crime of violence; it frequently becomes the means for men who feel belittled and powerless to express their need for control and dominance.

But when substantial numbers of blacks move into a classroom or a neighborhood, whites feel threatened and so reject integration. (7) While black Americans tend to view themselves as victims of white society, white Americans typically no longer acknowledge the persistence of prejudice and dis- 28 Chapter 2 crimination in the lives of blacks. In this way, whites are able to downplay their own responsibility for why blacks tend to have worse jobs, lower incomes, and poorer housing than whites and, at the same time, to justify their own opposition to programs-for example, affirmative actiondesigned to achieve racial parity.

The distorted perception of the reality of life in America can be easily demonstrated by questioning even the most sophisticated individuals about elementary social facts. For example, what percentage of the population of the United States is black? Hispanic? Jewish? According to a recent Gallup national survey, the average American estimates that 30 percent of the population of the United States is black (actually, the figure for those who regard themselves as black or African-American is less than 13 percent); that 25 percent of all Americans are Hispanic (actually, the figure is close to 8 percent); and that 15 percent of our population is Jewish (actually, the figure is only 2 percent maximum).

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