Shared dangerous work and interdependence reduced racial prejudice in both sailors and police

Evidence

After desegregation of the Merchant Marine in 1948, interdependency developed on ships and in the maritime union. The more voyages the white seamen took with blacks under these conditions, the more positive their racial attitudes became (Brophy 1946). Similarly, white police in Philadelphia who had worked with black colleagues had fewer objections to black police joining their districts, teaming with a black partner, and taking orders from qualified black officers (Kephart 1957). — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Intergroup Contact Theory, 17 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Interdependent interracial work produces more positive racial attitudes and lowers objections — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Intergroup Contact Theory, 17; Shared experience of war’s harm can dissolve racialized threat perception — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 190; Allport’s contact conditions boost prejudice reduction more for nonracial than racial intergroup contexts — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 162 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Interdependent interracial work produces more positive racial attitudes and lowers objections #corroborates (0.95) — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Intergroup Contact Theory, 17