Expression of Ethnic Prejudice in Focus Groups from Agencies Affected by the 9/11 Attacks on the World Trade Center

Carol S North; Mollie Gordon; You Seung Kim; Nancy E. Wallace; Rebecca P. Smith; Betty Pfefferbaum; Barry A. Hong; Osman M Ali; Chong Wang; David E. Pollio

doi:10.1080/15313204.2014.903134

Expression of Ethnic Prejudice in Focus Groups from Agencies Affected by the 9/11 Attacks on the World Trade Center

Carol S North, Mollie Gordon, You Seung Kim, Nancy E. Wallace, Rebecca P. Smith, Betty Pfefferbaum, Barry A. Hong, Osman M Ali, Chong Wang, David E. Pollio

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Members of Muslim and Arab-American communities were publicly targeted as suspects and perpetrators of this terrorism. One to two years after the attacks, 145 participants from 6 affected agencies in New York City participated in 22 focus groups to discuss post-disaster psychosocial issues. Ethnic prejudice was reflected in 2% of the comments emerging from these discussions, representing three major subthemes: (1) observations of prejudice toward self or others, (2) personal fear-based or prejudicial attitudes and opinions, and (3) defense of Muslims. The discussion involving prejudice that emerged in these focus groups parallels the upsurge in prejudice reported by other sources after 9/11.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	93-109
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
Volume	23
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15313204.2014.903134
State	Published - Apr 2014

Keywords

9/11 attacks
Muslims
ethnic prejudice
focus groups
terrorism

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North, C. S., Gordon, M., Kim, Y. S., Wallace, N. E., Smith, R. P., Pfefferbaum, B., Hong, B. A., Ali, O. M., Wang, C., & Pollio, D. E. (2014). Expression of Ethnic Prejudice in Focus Groups from Agencies Affected by the 9/11 Attacks on the World Trade Center. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 23(2), 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313204.2014.903134

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