The Paradoxes of Integration

by Oliver, J. Eric

• ISBN13: 9780226626635
• ISBN10: 0226626636
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

The United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society.The Paradoxes of Integrationhelps 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 when whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans actually live in integrated neighborhoods, they feel less racial resentment. Paradoxically, this racial tolerance is usually also accompanied by feeling less connected to their community; it is no longer "theirs." Basing its findings on our most advanced means of gauging the impact of social environments on racial attitudes,The Paradoxes of Integrationsensitively explores the benefits and at times, heavily borne, costs of integration.

Author Biography

J. Eric Oliver is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America’s Obesity Epidemic and Democracy in Suburbia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Place and the Future of American Race Relations	p. 1
Why Place Is So Important for Race	p. 12
Racial Attitudes among Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans	p. 37
Neighborhood- and Metropolitan-Level Differences in Racial Attitudes	p. 67
Geographic Self-Sorting and Racial Attitudes	p. 98
Interracial Civic and Social Contact in Multiethnic America	p. 112
The Civic and Social Paradoxes of Neighborhood Racial Integration	p. 133
On Segregation and Multiculturalism	p. 152
Data Sources	p. 169
Notes	p. 171
References	p. 185
Index	p. 197
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