Prejudice in politics
Subtitle: group position, public opinion, and the Wisconsin treaty rights dispute
By: Lawrence D. Bobo, Mia Tuan.
Contributors: Tuan, Mia, 1968-
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians -- Public opinion.; Ojibwa Indians -- Treaties.; Ojibwa Indians -- Civil rights.; Indians, Treatment of -- Wisconsin.; Racism -- Wisconsin.; Politics and culture -- Wisconsin.; Public opinion -- Wisconsin.; Wisconsin -- Politics and government.; Wisconsin -- Race relations.
Genres: Treaties.
Description: "This book presents a sociological study of how and why racial prejudice against members of a minority group comes to shape what happens to important political claims and aspirations of the group. Lawrence Bobo and Mia Tuan explore a lengthy controversy surrounding the fishing, hunting, and gathering rights of the Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. The controversy started in 1974, when two Chippewa Indians were arrested for off-reservation fishing, and persisted into the 1990s. It involved the efforts of the Chippewa to assert their traditional spearfishing rights, which met with angry, racially charged responses from whites."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.