SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Marginal Cost, Reverse Discrimination, Field Experiment

• School: Emory University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Scott Tracy

Document Summary

Lacy (adler): black spaces, black places: strategic assimilation and identity construction in middle. Third path :deliberately retaining the culture and values of their immigrant community --> rely on ethnic communities for social capital employment leads, and relief from discrimination: methods, the suburban sites. 1997-1998; interviews and participant observation in 2 middle-class suburban communities: metropolitan area of washington, dc --- majority white/black suburb, riverton = 65% black, lakeview = 4% black, desirability of racial integration. External and material ingredients : housing patterns, incomes, educational attainments. Cultural, intrapersonal, and interpersonal aspects: willingness to assimilate is tempered by their belief that racial discrimination has not waned, both resistant in interracial marriage or joining white frat, white colleges (undergrad - black; grad- white) Both groups concerned with preparing children to fxn in predominantly white settings: growing up around blacks: the desire for racially-distinct spaces. Immersed in a mostly black environment ---> tend not to discuss racial id outright with children-->