Scholarly interest in internal prejudice conflict arose only after legal desegregation norms shifted.

Evidence

That is, although Allport’s analysis appears to have anticipated many of these themes, without the normative changes that followed in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court Ruling on school desegregation and Civil Rights legislation of the early 1960s, these themes may not have emerged as central to the study of prejudice and its control. In other words, the issues that directly led to many of the more recent developments grew out of questions concerning the extent to which changes in personal attitudes kept pace with legal and normative changes. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2116

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The claim that legal/normative change (not Allport’s writings alone) drove the field’s central questions parallels the dynamic in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ where moral panics surface only as class/identity signaling under shifting norms.