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　41. His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States, but his definition of racial prejudice as “ racially-based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition,” can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe. 　　42. Gutman argues convincingly that the stability of the Black family encouraged the transmission of and so was crucial in sustaining— the Black heritage of folklore, music, and religious