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Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position

Blumer, Herbert·1958·The Pacific Sociological Review
DOI 10.2307/1388607
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In this paper I am proposing an approach to the study of race prejudice different from that which dominates contemporary scholarly thought on this topic. My thesis is that race prejudice exists basically in a sense of group position rather than in a set of feelings which members of one racial group have toward the members of another racial group. This different way of viewing race prejudice shifts study and analysis from a preoccupation with feelings as lodged in individuals to a concern with the relationship of racial groups. It also shifts scholarly treatment away from individual lines of experience and focuses interest on the collective process by which a racial group comes to define and redefine another racial group. Such shifts, I believe, will yield a more realistic and penetrating understanding of race prejudice.

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  • As the relative sizes and/or salience of minority racial populations increase, majority groups may feel threatened and feel that their positions of power and privilege are jeopardized.

    “According to this view, as the relative sizes and/or salience of minority racial populations increase, majority groups may feel threatened and feel that their positions of power and privilege are jeopardized”

    From Criminal Justice in Indian Country: A Theoretical and Empirical Agenda (2019) · cites this paper as Blumer 1958

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Authors
Blumer, H.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
Blumer, Herbert
Venue
The Pacific Sociological Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1958-04
Volume
1
Issue
1
Pages
3-7
ISSN
0030-8919 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/1388607
OpenAlex
W2489165867
Cited by
3,487
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 145 · 2025: 189 · 2024: 195 · 2023: 249 · 2022: 221 · 2021: 263 · 2020: 199 · 2019: 220 · 2018: 189 · 2017: 150 · 2016: 129 · 2015: 155 · 2014: 134 · 2013: 138 · 2012: 138
FWCI
7.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
The Pacific Sociological Review (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Keywords
racial prejudice, group position, racial groups, intergroup relations, collective identity, social construction of race

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