Negro-Jewish Prejudice: Authoritarianism and Some Social Variables as Correlates

Abstract

directed toward the early identification and fostering of individual talents.) It must be remembered that the data reported here though they corroborate the findings of other studies in this area refer to a single, small community which has not had any significant Negro in-migration. Moreover, it may well be that the one-third of the original white sample who left the community and could not be contacted is precisely the most ambitious white part of the group. These caveats and the hypothesis advanced here will be tested in a study presently being conducted among tenth graders in New York City high schools. Preliminary analysis of these data tend to confirm the findings reported here. Certainly the aspirational orientations and the attitudes toward school found in this community differ from the many impressionistic (and largely sensational newspaper) accounts of Negro youth in large metropolitan centers. A study presently being conducted by the senior author in New York City high schools will provide data which will allow us to test the