Contact Theory
Too Timid for “Race” and Racism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10219844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Z Erasmus (0000-0003-1528-0992, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 387-400 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2010.01651.x |
| OpenAlex | W1908265060 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 43 |
This article extends critiques of contact theory. It notes four deeper limitations: (1) what I call a “psychometric imaginary”; (2) an assumption that “race” is given, homogeneous and stable; (3) contact/noncontact dualism; and (4) inattention to whiteness. These limitations locate contact theory within raciological thought, making contact a reformist, rather than transformative antiracist strategy. I suggest an alternative: a critical literacy for the use of “race.” Contrary to Pettigrew's (1998) call for conceptual economy, I argue that conceptual expansion better serves understanding the tenacity of “race” and complexities of racism(s). Contrary to the psychometric imaginary of contact theory, I suggest that we need a visionary political imaginary for an antiracist world. I conclude that the key question for transforming intergroup relations in South Africa is not “which conditions,” and “what kinds of” contact are necessary, but “what kinds of politics, knowing, seeing and belonging” are necessary for critical antiracist praxis
Contact hypothesis · Critical race theory · Critical theory · Dualism · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Psychoanalysis · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · The Imaginary · Transformative learning · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Shifting race and class in student construction of identities at a South African university
Contact theory and the concept of prejudice
Finding the familiar in the strange
Mapping public art to explore the decolonization and Africanization of space in the inner city of Durban, South Africa
The Use of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) for Sociolinguistic Purposes in South Africa
Intergroup Contact as a Potential Path to Neutralize the Detrimental Effect of National Identification on Xenophobia in Germany
Emerging Patterns of Social Identification in Postapartheid South Africa
Social cohesion among Syrian and Turkish children, adolescents, and young adults in Turkey
The Power of Narratives in Conflict and Peace
They dug up wounds’
Race and assessment practice in South Africa
Is contact theory still valid in acute asymmetrical violent conflict? A case study of Israeli Jewish and Arab students in higher education
Young Coloureds’ implicit attitudes towards two historically White English accents in the South African context
Multiracial Families and Contact Theory in South Africa
An Evaluation of Ancestral Diversity in 19th-Century South Shields
Commentary
The Changing Landscape of Intergroup Relations in South Africa
The Reconstitution of Privilege
The rise and fall of exclusion
Leaving it to the Children
Contact Theory in a Small-Town Settler-Colonial Context
Language, race or place? Influential factors in determining young "Coloured" individuals' attitudes towards Afrikaans accents in English
"Instrumental explanations of attitudes towards immigrants during the "refugee crisis
Impure Community
How do younger generations of white Afrikaans-speaking South Africans become antiracist
What Would They do if you Greeted?' The Potentiality of Greetings in the New South Africa
Constructing race
Out of Whiteness
Whiteness just isn't what it used to be
Situating “Race” and Racisms in Time, Space, and Theory
Imperial Eyes
Understanding Everyday Racism
Critical Race Theory
A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial
From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a ‘Post-Socialist’ Age
Critical Race Theory and Education
The Wretched of the Earth
Chapter 4
Make Indigenes Unconscious of Whiteness
As the Postcolonial Moment Deepens
Interpersonal Concerns in Social Encounters between Majority and Minority Group Members
Future directions for a critical social psychology of racism/antiracism
Studying talk and embodied practices
Towards a critical social psychology of racism
Against the notion of a ‘new racism’
Critical Race Theory
From apartheid to affirmative action
The racialization of affirmative action in organizational discourses
Rethinking the Paradigm of Prejudice
Prejudice and Social Contact in South Africa
White Excellence and Black Failure’
Patterns of Racial Segregation in University Residence Dining-Halls
A Paradox of Integration? Interracial Contact, Prejudice Reduction, and Perceptions of Racial Discrimination
The Reconstitution of Privilege
Race From the Inside
Critical race theory
A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory
Easier done than undone
Beyond the Optimal Contact Strategy
Intergroup Contact
Frantz Fanon's Radio
Intergroup Contact Theory
The end(s) of race
South Africa's Racial past
Critical Race Theory and Education
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,63 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |