The Individual and “The General Situation”: The Tension Barometer and the Race Problem at the University of Chicago, 1947--1954 (2010)
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 tension barometer, 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 interests, and emerging anticommunism, the Committee's history shows, created an environment where individualistic conceptions of the race problem won out, despite critique. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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