The Nature of Prejudice (25th Anniversary Edition)

by Gordon W. Allport

Book Overview

The classic psychological study of the roots of discrimination. First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination. With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice. Allport's comprehensive and penetrating work examines all aspects of this age-old problem: its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201001799
• ISBN13: 9780201001792
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Very informative piece

I've really been enjoying this book. Many of the ideas are still relevant to studies done today, and the stuff that is more historical is incredibly interesting.

Informative

Allport's The Nature of Prejudice is written in a very comprehensive manner that allows you to reflect upon your own experience in prejudices both internal and external. This book is a classic and sheds light on inter-cultural and intra-cultural understanding in the years to come.

An inspired classic used by Malcom X and Dr. King!

If you have truely studied Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X then you have probably seen pictures of this book next to them on their desks. Don't think for one minute that you understand prejudice without reading this book first. It explains why prejudice occurs and how it is part of our basic makeup. Mr. Allport also explains how to change these perceptions that generate the discrimination. For any Civil Rights Advocate this is a must read. It puts you inside the mind of those who practice bigotry and discrimination. If you cannot understand them then how can you defeat them.