Black Cities/White Cities: Evaluating the Police

It is well known that African Americans and whites hold different views of the police, but nearly all of the previous research has been conducted in majority white settings. This research examines the relationship between race and evaluations of the police in majority black versus majority white contexts. Social dominance theory and the research on racial threat predict that when the racial majority changes, the relationship between race and attitudes toward police will change. We find that, in majority black contexts, the traditional relationship between being black and having negative evaluations of the police disappears, and it disappears because whites' evaluations of the police become more negative. Black evaluations of the police are relatively consistent across racial contexts. Also, white racial attitudes affect police evaluations in majority black contexts, but not in white contexts, while African American racial attitudes are inconsequential in both contexts. Furthermore, if a white citizen is victimized by crime in a black city, it has greater ramifications for evaluations of the police than if the victimization had occurred in a white city. All of this suggests that whites' views of the police may be more racialized than the views of African Americans.     

Comingin From the Cold

<正>Having fought each other to a standstill over the Ukrainian crisis,the United States and Russia seek a path to peaceful coexistence On June 25,Russian President Vladimir Putin gave U.S.President Barack Obama a telephone call.This was the first direct talk between the two heads of state since February,and was described by NBC News as     

Matilda Gage Writes a World History of Women

Suffragist Matilda's Gage's Woman, Church and State, 1893, invites a revisit because it was a pioneering study in world history with woman as its central issue. While labeled an amateur, Gage's work demonstrated an excellent grasp of nineteenth-century historical scholarship and she offered interpretive insights that tied nascent anthropological theory to historical analysis. For these reasons she is best understood in relation to the women scholars of the 1890s and subsequent decades who created a well-researched and scholarly new history of women.     

Book review

Wildavsky, Aaron. Speaking Truth to Power: the art and craft of policy analysis, little, Brown, and Company, Boston and T oronto, 1979, 431 pp. $12.00.     

HEADING FOR STABLE GROWTH

<正>Improved economic structure and greater benefits for the people usher ina new direction for China’s economy China’s GDP growth leveled off at 7 percent in the first half of this year,with an array of optimistic signs,such as better structure,improved growth quality,faster-thanexpected job creation and accelerated growth of residents’income,boding well for the ongoing reform.To stabilize economic growth,the Chinese Government unveiled a number of policies and measures,ranging from launching key infrastructure projects to remolding the investment and financing system,from     

Greek Grandeur

GREECE looms large in the world’s imagination. A thousand dreamers have a thousand different visions of this nation of picturesque islands, grand mythology and, recently, economic tumult. I believe the Chinese people’s interest in Greece stems from a deep respect and appreciation for the nation’s ancient culture.