Reviewed by Ronald Schultz | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute. By Lawrence D. Bobo and Mia Tuan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. xi + 276 pp. Photos, tables, graphs, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 (cloth).

"Save two walleye, spear a pregnant squaw." This, and a dozen similar phrases, all of them equally full of hatred, anger, resentment, and anxiety, punctuated the Wisconsin fishing rights dispute of the 1980s. The dispute pitted local Chippewa people—who claimed traditional fishing rights on Wisconsin waterways guaranteed in an 1837 treaty—against white Wisconsinites who viewed Indian spearfishing as everything from "wrong" to grossly "inhumane." The rhetoric produced during the dispute reveals that this seemingly minor clash revealed deeply held feelings on both sides. During the 1980s these tensions provoked loud protests, the disruption of fishing sites, and racial epithets targeting Indians who were neither Chippewa nor involved in the dispute. By 1989 state and national officials sent to investigate the escalating conflict warned that violence was almost assured. How could fishing rights become such a volatile issue? In Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute, Lawrence D. Bobo and Mia Tuan answer that question by leading us through a labyrinth of sociological theory, survey research, views about the impact of prejudice on politics, and the often confused and inconsistent feelings of white Wisconsinites about what they perceived as Indian violations of the moral order.

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