IN STUDYING anti-Negro prejudice, it has long been usual for researchers to come up with the conclusion that the prejudice correlates closely with amount of education and the region a man comes from. Mr. Brophy here reports a study of anti-Negro prejudice where these correlations give way to quite different relationships. Among seamen what seems to matter most is a man's union and the number of times he has shipped with Negroes—a conclusion obviously filled with hopeful implications, despite the special nature of the occupational group.
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Ira N. Brophy (1945) studied this question.