Contact Hypothesis - Principle Implementation Gap

Principle Implementation Gap

The Contact Hypothesis has been challenged however, Dixon discusses this phenomenon, “in principle a majority can believe in racial justice but in implementation they are unwilling to create policies to change racial disparity" (871).

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