ABSTRACT
Social psychologists tend to attribute the complexity of contemporary racism to subtle, unconscious bias as very influential and rich avenue of inquiry. Critical analysis explores heuristic avenues that open a dialogue between social psychology and cognate fields-anthropology, social theory and sociology. It shifts the onus of social psychological analyses of prejudice: from prejudice as an attitudinal product of antipathy to prejudice as harm inflicted by indignity. Social visions and intellectual strands are used to strengthen and reorient a renewed social psychology of racism. The crux of anti-Roma prejudices, as source of suffering and disvalue, presupposes understanding the nature of solidarity and sympathy in liberal democracies and the nature of civilized opinion as a contradictory social mixture. European civilized opinion comprises well-intentioned prejudices that rehearse degrading, debasing, dehumanizing descriptions of people. European documents on Roma integration portray the European Union as a collective of 'nations aspiring to justice with definite goals and aspirations'.
