STEVEN A. TUCH is Associate Professor of Sociology at The George Washington University.JACK K. MARTIN is Senior Research Scientist, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Survey Research Center at the University of Georgia. Both have written extensively on race relations and workplace issues, and they are currently co-Principal Investigators on a five-year NIAAA-funded research project investigating the factors that shape maladaptive alcohol use among African-Americans.

• IllustrationsIntroduction by Jack K. Martin, E.M. Beck, and Steven A. TuchThe Transformation of Racial Attitudes in the United StatesPrologue: Reflections on Racial Attitude Research by A. Wade SmithLaissez-Faire Racism: The Crystallization of a Kinder, Gentler Anti Black Ideology by Lawrence Bobo, James R. Kluegel, and Ryan A. SmithThe Racial Attitudes of WhitesSymbolic Racism, Old-Fashioned Racism, and Whites' Opposition to Affirmative Action by Michael HughesThe Affective Component of Prejudice: Empirical Support for the New View by Thomas F. PettigrewSociodemographic Attributes and the Racial Attitudes of WhitesStatus, Ideology, and Dimensions of Whites' Racial Beliefs and Attitudes: Progress and Stagnation by Lawrence Bobo and James R. KluegelAdvance and Retreat: Racially Based Attitudes and Public Policy by Cedric Herring and Charles AmissahWhite Ethnic Identification and Racial Attitudes by James E. CoverdillRegional Differences in Whites' Racial Policy Attitudes by Steven A. Tuch and Jack K. MartinThe Racial Attitudes of African AmericansBlacks, Whites, and the Changing of the Guard in Black Political Leadership by Lee SigelmanAfrican-American Employers' Attitudes toward African-American Workers by Joleen KirschenmanFifty Years after Myrdal: Blacks' Racial Policy Attitudes in the 1990s by Steven A. Tuch, Lee Sigelman, and Jack K. MartinReferencesIndex