Word: pettigrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winslow Briggs, Biology Malcolm Gillis, Economics Herbert Levi, MCZ Thomas Pettigrew, Social Relations Paul Weaver. Government
During the discussion of the Afro-American studies program, Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology, said, "The real problem is the race issue facing us at the Faculty level. I hope that adoption of the Afro program doesn't take the heat off of the search for black professors in all disciplines...
...discussion of student tactics and the strike, Pettigrew said he thought that disruption of classes is now likely to become widespread and that only the students could limit...
...Negro is ever going to change white attitudes by sodding some white suburban lawn-but white society is sensitive and susceptible to pressure from its own kind. "The basic thing the individual should do is start to change the institutions in which he is involved," says Thomas F. Pettigrew, Harvard social psychologist. "You change people's attitudes by changing their behavior first. And you change behavior by changing institutions-the institutions that require us to behave in racist ways...
...Pettigrew and others feel that the remedy consists in the deployment of "White Power" at every level of white society, challenging behavior and attitude patterns that have stiffened in place less by prejudice than by habit. A mere handful of shoppers serially stating their concern to a local storekeeper because he hires no Negro help are likely to revolutionize his personnel policy: from this modest sample, in a pattern familiar to psychologists, the proprietor senses the sentiment of the community-or thinks he does. New behavior patterns can change old attitudes. "People will assume that it's right...