Incidence of Labor Relations (1962)

Cox argues that the principal conditions for development of mass attitudes of racial antipathy appears to be: a peculiar variant of capitalist production; an exploitable group which can be identified as culturally or biologically different; monopolization of political power by a de facto ruling class; control of the media of mass communication and continuous use of them to direct derogatory and discriminatory propaganda against the exploitable group; and the promulgation of discriminatory laws, the most important of which make segregation mandatory. In a situation such as this the races may be effectively estranged. Each side tends thus to live in some state of endemic social distrust while interracial mass behavior involving violence assumes a continuously potential danger.