His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against blacks in the united states ， but his definition of racial prejudice as & quot; racially - based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition ， & quot; can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the chinese in california and the jews in medieval europe 该社会学家的命题当被应用于针对美国黑人的歧视时，相对而言尚能适用，但他对种族偏见所下的定义? ?即“以种族为基础的、针对某个群体的消级的先入之见，而该群体在任何特定的种族竞争地区则被普遍认作一种族” ? ?可被理解成同样也襄括了针对加利福尼亚州的中国人以及中世纪的犹太人这样一些种族群体的敌视态度。
