Penn State Department of Political Science

Book Description

This book focuses on the impact of residential changes on the attitudes and behavior of African-Americans and whites. Will whites' attitudes about blacks and blacks' attitudes toward whites change if they are living in integrated neighborhoods rather than apart from one another? Are black suburbanites more likely to share the views of their fellow white suburbanites or of their fellow African-Americans in the central city? Will residential integration and new patterns of race in the suburbs break down divisions between blacks and whites in their views of local public services? These are the central questions of this book.

1. Introduction: race and residence
2. Race relations in Detroit, 1968–1992
3. Black-White social interaction
4. Perceptions of racial discriminations
5. Black racial solidarity
6. White racial prejudice
7. Opinions on urban issues - the schools and the police
8. Conclusions.

Prize Winner

Co-Winner of the APSA Best Book on Urban Politics for 2001