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The Paradoxes of Integration
J. Eric Oliver
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Description for The Paradoxes of Integration
Paperback. The United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society. This title helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships among integration, racial attitudes, and neighborhood life. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 maps, 43 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226626635
SKU
V9780226626635
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About J. Eric Oliver
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.
Reviews for The Paradoxes of Integration
"J. Eric 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.