ISBN:
0226626628
,
0226626636
,
1282584944
,
9780226626642
,
9781282584945
,
9780226626628
,
9780226626635
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 199 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Paradoxes of Integration : Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multiethnic America
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Minorities Attitudes
;
Ethnic neighborhoods
;
Social integration
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Race relations
;
Public opinion
Abstract:
The United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society. The Paradoxes of Integration helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships among integration, racial attitudes, and neighborhood life.J. Eric Oliver demonstrates that the effects of integration differ tremendously, depending on which geographical level one is examining. Living among people of other races in a larger metropolitan area corresponds with greater racial intolerance, particularly for America's white majority. But w
Description / Table of Contents:
Place and the future of American race relationsWhy place is so important for race -- Racial attitudes among Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans -- Neighborhood- and metropolitan-level differences in racial attitudes -- Geographic self-sorting and racial attitudes -- Interracial civic and social contact in multiethnic America -- The civic and social paradoxes of neighborhood racial integration -- On segregation and multiculturalism.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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