Allport treated his contact chapter as central, cutting little when abridging his book

Evidence

As his graduate assistant “go-for” (not for coffee but for books from the library), the first author remembers well that the Deutsch and Collins (1951) volume on interracial contact in public housing made an especially important impact on Allport’s thinking about intergroup contact. It also should be noted that Allport himself valued this chapter on contact. When he had to condense by 40 percent The Nature of Prejudice for its 1958 abridged paperback edition (Allport, 1958), he reduced chapter 16 on contact only slightly and retained all but three of the original references. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1718

Categorization

• XREF: Establishes how central contact theory was to Allport himself, informing the reassessment thread on the vault’s contact-theory claims.