Behind the white picket fence : power and privilege in a multiethnic neighborhood /

Behind the white picket fence : power and privilege in a multiethnic neighborhood /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mayorga-Gallo, Sarah.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Community life -- North Carolina -- Durham. Community power -- North Carolina -- Durham. Segregation -- North Carolina -- Durham. Neighborhoods -- North Carolina -- Durham. Community life. Community power. Ethnic relations. Neighborhoods. Segregation. Social conditions. Durham (N.C.) -- Ethnic relations. Durham (N.C.) -- Social conditions. North Carolina -- Durham.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12645250

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ISBN:	9781469618647 1469618648 9781469618654 1469618656 9781469618630 146961863X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Mayorga-Gallo, Sarah. Behind the white picket fence 9781469618630

Table of Contents:

Inside Creekridge Park
White habitus and the meanings of diversity
Neighboring from a distance
Creekridge Park in black and brown
Solving the wrong problem.