Professor Allport has written a comprehensive and detailed account of the phenomenon of prejudice: its roots in individual psychology, history, and social structure, its numerous varieties, its varied expressions in interpersonal relations and in society, its impact on the individual and on the community, and the means whereby it might be reduced. Allport's systematic mind has summarized and organized a mass of studies, but he has always remained aware of the complexities of human experience, pouring insight and understanding into every page. Written by a master of style and expression, the book is far more than a necessary handbook for students of prejudice and those who seek to know it in order to fight it.