Rates of hate‐crime activity continue to occur with alarming frequency, and according to most law enforcement personnel those that are motivated by ethnic and race‐based hatred occur most frequently. When individuals are targeted because of their race or ethnicity they are likely to experience a host of negative emotions that are qualitatively distinct from those experienced following nonbiased criminal victimization. In an effort to assist psychologists who treat hate‐crime victims, this paper describes the psychological impact of racist hate‐crime victimization. A review of the general effects of victimization and experience of posttraumatic stress disorder is also presented. The remaining section of the paper offers specific suggestions for psychologists and other mental health practitioners who seek to assist victims of racist hate crime.

This article discusses the methodological issues and challenges associated with research examining interethnic relationships and marriage. A major focus of this article is on the identification and classification of interethnic marriages. A second aim of the article is to explore the specific challenges faced by researchers who study these types of relationships. The third and final focus of the article is on reliable and specific guidance for researchers engaged in interethnic relationships research. The article provides an overview of specific methodological matters in conducting research on interethnic relationships and marriage including research design, sampling constraints, self‐classification labels versus other labels, comfort in discussing or disclosing what may be perceived to be a sensitive issue, as well as the in‐group or out‐group status of the researcher. More generally, by presenting a discussion of both qualitative and quantitative methods for research in this area and the limitations of each, we provide a “tool kit” of helpful guidance to those engaged in this type of research.

Although scholars throughout the social sciences have considered cultural differences among individuals in the African Diaspora, there is little marketplace research examining differences among these peoples. The present research was conducted to better understand how varying identities and cultural group norms influence attitudes, language, communications, and consumption patterns in reactions to the socially explosive epithet nigger. Qualitative research was conducted involving a series of in-depth interviews with people of the African Diaspora who were living in the United States. Analysis of interview data suggests the prominent influence of respondents' culture of origin in their knowledge structures, affective reactions, and expressed contingencies for use. In general, findings from this research reveal the multiple meanings and usage of the term nigger and its derivatives among peoples of the African Diaspora.

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