{"id":2815,"date":"2012-01-24T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T22:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2012-01-24T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T22:24:08","slug":"american-apartheid-melting-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2012\/01\/24\/american-apartheid-melting-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"American Apartheid, Melting Slowly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2816\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2816\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2012\/01\/racism-moves-out-sm.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2816\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2012\/01\/racism-moves-out-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Racism Moves Out, peterthomasryan.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not only are we excited to spot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psc.isr.umich.edu\/people\/profile\/27\">Reynolds Farley&#8217;s<\/a> <em>Contexts<\/em> article &#8220;The Waning of American Apartheid?&#8221; (Summer 2011) written up in the Emerging Ideas section of the Jan.-Feb. 2012 issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utne.com\/Politics\/Racial-Segregation-Declining-In-American-Cities.aspx\"><em>Utne Reader<\/em><\/a>, we&#8217;re gratified to see the elegant treatment it&#8217;s received in this &#8220;Citings &amp; Sightings&#8221; style piece. Further, the illustration (at left, by Peter Thomas Ryan, peterthomasryan.com) wittily gets at the heart of the matter. What more could an editorial team want?<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, the author writes of Farley and his fellow researchers&#8217; extensive longitudinal work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The stats aren&#8217;t evidence of a racial utopia (50 percent of thse respondents hit the edge of their [neighborhood] comfort zone at a 50-50 split in racial composition), but from block to block, there does seem to be slow and steady progress toward a more racially integrated America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To check out the original article, please visit <a href=\"www.contexts.org\">contexts.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only are we excited to spot Reynolds Farley&#8217;s Contexts article &#8220;The Waning of American Apartheid?&#8221; (Summer 2011) written up in the Emerging Ideas section of the Jan.-Feb. 2012 issue of the Utne Reader, we&#8217;re gratified to see the elegant treatment it&#8217;s received in this &#8220;Citings &amp; Sightings&#8221; style piece. Further, the illustration (at left, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39111,110],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-race","tag-segregation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}