1. A COMPARISON OF HAWAIIAN AND MAINLAND ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE NEGRO.
- Author
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Kalish, Ridwrd A.
- Subjects
RACIAL differences ,DIFFERENCES ,SOCIAL factors ,RACE relations ,RACE discrimination ,RACISM ,AFRICAN American social conditions - Abstract
This article presents a scientific understanding of the differences between Hawaiian and Mainland attitudes towards African Americans. Because of the pride taken by Hawaii's residents when speaking of their home and because of the stories which come from Mainland newspapers and other communication sources, Hawaii is often touted as being a racial paradise. Some local people gloss over the few published incidents which indicate racial prejudice and ignore the signs of prejudice. The attitudes of local people towards the various racial groups which constitute its population have allegedly been a frequent subject of research, some of it published, much of it remaining unpublished. One racial group, the American Negro, however, has not been the subject of much research, although Mainland African Americans have been the focus of volumes of psychological and sociological research. There are several probable reasons for such a lack of interest in the local African American population, the main one likely being the relatively small number of local African American inhabitants. Another possible factor is that the land of familial origin is often more important in indicating in-group background, which is color or race in the anthropological sense.
- Published
- 1956