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- Title
The Scope of Justice for Muslim Americans: Moral Exclusion in the Aftermath of 9/11.
- Authors
Coryn, Chris L. S.; Borshuk, Catherine
- Abstract
This paper details a social psychological study of prejudice and moral exclusion. We investigated whether participants, 47 non-Muslim U.S. citizens enrolled at a Midwestern university, considered Muslim Americans to be within their scope of justice, and whether principles of fairness, restitution, and corrective intervention would be applied to a stimulus Muslim family. Only about one-third of the sample indicated that the Muslim family fell within their scope of justice. Open-ended responses yielded three patterns: (1) threat and revenge toward the out-group; (2) concern with the rights of out-group members; and (3) disconnection from the out-group, along with ambivalence about justice issues. Although explicitly racist statements were detected, so too was a recognition of common humanity with out-group members.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JUSTICE % society; MUSLIMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL research; SOCIAL conditions in the United States, 1980-; SOCIAL isolation; PREJUDICES; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Qualitative Report, 2006, Vol 11, Issue 3, p586
- ISSN
1052-0147
- Publication type
Article