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...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...
...expected it to be a white-wash job, said Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, and former teacher of Harvard's major course on race relations. He admitted that he had refused to cooperate with the Commission. "I did not think I would want to have my name associated with it," he said...
Criticism of the President's Riot Commission Report falls into three categories. Many agree with Pettigrew that "the diagnosis is excellent" even though the research would win no A for scholarship...
...Review isn't easy reading. The list of contributors is impressive, ranging from Coleman himself (tracing the evolution of the concept of equal educational opportunity) to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Thomas F. Pettigrew and Kenneth Clark. But the editors apparently decided to restrict authors as little as possible, outlining three major topics: research issues, policy issues, and problems of implementing policy. The result is that many of the pieces are needlessly repetitive...