@article{ref1,
title="The individual and "the general situation": the tension barometer and the race problem at the University of Chicago, 1947-1954",
journal="Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences",
year="2010",
author="Gordon, Leah N.",
volume="46",
number="1",
pages="27-51",
abstract="This article explains how social theories that posited white attitudes as the root of racial injustice gained traction in postwar social thought. Examining the production of a &quot;tension barometer,&quot; an attitude survey that scholars from the University of Chicago's Committee on Education, Training, and Research in Race Relations created to predict interracial violence, I chart vigorous debate over the nature and causes of racial oppression in the critical postwar decades. Available-and unavailable-social scientific frameworks, activists&quot; interests, and emerging anticommunism, the Committee's history shows, created an environment where individualistic conceptions of &quot;the race problem&quot; won out, despite critique.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-5061",
doi="10.1002/jhbs.20408",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20408"
}