title: History, prejudice, and the study of social inequities.
abstract: Integrating a historical perspective into studies of prejudicial attitudes facilitates the interpretation of paradoxical findings of the kind cited in the target article. History also encourages research to move beyond the study of prejudice and to consider institutional and structural forces that maintain social inequities. Multilevel approaches can study these factors in both field and laboratory studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA. jharrell@howard.edu
authors.forename: Jules P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Harrell
authors.forename: Edna Greene
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Medford
mesh_terms: D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011287:Prejudice; D012933:Social Identification