Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood

The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater...
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Author: Sarah Mayorga
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Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood by Mayorga, Sarah

Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood

$114.94

Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood

$114.94
Author: Sarah Mayorga
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equality would prevail in integrated neighborhoods. But as Sarah Mayorga-Gallo argues, multiethnic and mixed-income neighborhoods still harbor the signs of continued, systemic racial inequalities. Drawing on deep ethnographic and other innovative research from "Creekridge Park," a pseudonymous urban community in Durham, North Carolina, Mayorga-Gallo demonstrates that the proximity of white, African American, and Latino neighbors does not ensure equity; rather, proximity and equity are in fact subject to structural-level processes of stratification. Behind the White Picket Fence shows how contemporary understandings of diversity are not necessarily rooted in equity or justice but instead can reinforce white homeowners' race and class privilege; ultimately, good intentions and a desire for diversity alone do not challenge structural racial, social, and economic disparities. This book makes a compelling case for how power and privilege are reproduced in daily interactions and calls on readers to question commonsense understandings of space and inequality in order to better understand how race functions in multiethnic America.



Author: Sarah Mayorga
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/01/2014
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781469618630


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2015

About the Author
Mayorga, Sarah: - Sarah Mayorga-Gallo is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

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