The paradoxes of integration
Subtitle: race, neighborhood, and civic life in multiethnic America
By: J. Eric Oliver.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780226626628; 9780226626635
Subjects: Social integration -- United States; Ethnic neighborhoods -- United States; Minorities -- United States -- Attitudes; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Race relations -- Public opinion
Description: The United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society. This book helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships among integration, racial attitudes, and neighbourhood life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Place and the future of American race relations; title: Why place is so important for race; title: Racial attitudes among Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans; title: Neighborhood- and metropolitan-level differences in racial attitudes; title: Geographic self-sorting and racial attitudes; title: Interracial civic and social contact in multiethnic America; title: The civic and social paradoxes of neighborhood racial integration; title: On segregation and multiculturalism.