The Paradoxes of Integration by J Eric Oliver
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 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 Integration" sensitively explores the benefits and at times, heavily borne costs, of integration.
"JEric Oliver makes an important new contribution to the scholarship of racial politics in this revealing account which explores social capital and racial difference in order to illustrate the contradictions between integration and intergroup tensions in contemporary American society." - Susan Welch, Pennylvania State University.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226626635 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226626636 |
| Title | The Paradoxes of Integration |
| Author | J Eric Oliver |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2010-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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