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Author Oliver, J. Eric, 1966-

Title The paradoxes of integration : race, neighborhood, and civic life in multiethnic America / J. Eric Oliver
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 199 pages) : illustrations
Contents Place and the future of American race relations -- Why 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Social integration -- United States
Ethnic neighborhoods -- United States.
Minorities -- United States -- Attitudes
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic neighborhoods
Minorities -- Attitudes
Race relations
Race relations -- Public opinion
Social integration
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
United States -- Race relations -- Public opinion
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009052810
ISBN 9780226626642
0226626644
9786612584947
6612584947
1282584944
9781282584945