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This study connects Los Angeles' recent economic, social, and spatial transformations to the experiences of its black inner-city population. Since the 1980s, intensifying a process that can be traced back to at least the 1940s, L. A.'s social classes and ethnic groups have been …

Stereotype threat is a situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to a negative stereotype about their social group. The present study varied the stereotype vulnerability of Jewish participants taking a brief yet robust test of cog…

We structure our lives around social groups – belonging to them and thinking about them. In this dissertation, I develop a new stereotype content measure to assess the attributes associated with groups in America today, propose and support a theory of sociocultural essentialism,…

This study examines the participation of different social groups at an Islamic festival in Jerusalem honouring the Prophet Moses (al-Nabi Musa ), during the period of British rule in Palestine, from 1917 to 1937. These different social groups included Arab nationalist leaders, I…