Seeing us in them : social divisions and the politics of group empathy / Cigdem V. Sirin, University of Texas, El Paso, Nicholas A. Valentino, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Jose D. Villalobos, University of Texas, El Paso.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xii, 310 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Prologue -- The puzzle: Empathy for outgroups amid existential threats and ingroup interests -- Group empathy theory -- Measuring group empathy: The group empathy index -- An origin story: Socializing group empathy via life experiences -- Group empathy and homeland security: The case of flying while Arab -- Group empathy and the politics of immigration -- Group empathy and foreign policy -- Group empathy in the Trump era -- Group empathy, Brexit, and public opinion in the UK -- Cultivating group empathy and challenging ethno-Nationalist politics -- Epilogue: Group empathy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Summary:
"Sugar, ketchup, and mustard. Common condiments became tools of racial harassment during the "sit-in movement" that started in 1960, as four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina protested segregation in public spaces by sitting at a whites-only lunch counter of a local store. Denied service, they quietly remained in their seats until the store closed that day. Soon the movement spread across the South where thousands of students and activists would join this nonviolent act of defiance. The rules of the sit-in movement were "simple": no matter what they do, no matter what they say, remain calm and peaceful. Whenever protestors were hauled away by police, or injured so badly they could not continue, others would take their place. An iconic photo from a sit-in on May 28, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi shows three demonstrators-two women and one man-stone-faced and determined at a lunch counter"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
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