{"id":6346,"date":"2017-08-10T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6346"},"modified":"2017-08-01T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:06:01","slug":"separate-but-diverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2017\/08\/10\/separate-but-diverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Separate but Diverse?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Ted Eytan, Flickr CC. Mural by Anieken Udofia in Adams Morgan Neighborhood, Washington, DC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhite flight\u201d describes the uncomfortably common phenomenon in the mid-to-late 20<\/span>th<\/span> century wherein whites would quickly move out of a neighborhood once blacks started moving in. This would often lead to neighborhoods that were mostly-white, but quickly ended up mostly-black. Today, American neighborhoods are not as mono-ethnic as they once were, and the picture has expanded beyond blacks and whites to other populations, such as Latinos and Asians.<\/span><\/p>\n

That said, however, segregation within neighborhood contexts is still present. A recent article<\/a> in Slate<\/em> detailed research showing that at the aggregate level, neighborhoods and residential areas are becoming more diverse in the U.S. However, this diversity does not necessarily mean that multicultural, cross-racial social relationships are thriving. <\/span>Derek Hyra<\/span><\/a>\u00a0conducted research in parts of Washington, D.C. and found that even in a diverse neighborhood, people\u2019s social associations\u2014such as choice of church, schools, and restaurants\u2014is often in a mono-ethnic context, leading to microsegregation or \u201cdiversity segregation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to necessarily suggest, however, that diverse neighborhoods have no potential to become more integrated. \u00a0Camille Z. Charles<\/a>\u00a0tells Slate<\/em> that\u00a0consistent exposure and contact with people of different races can<\/em> foster integration. Places like public schools and community centers provide the opportunity for these kinds of relationships to develop and lead to diverse neighborhoods where people have diverse friends. Charles explains,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are often friendlier with people we actually interact with. We do find there is lasting benefit to that, which is why we think it is important to have [diversity] in schools because kids spend so much time in classrooms and on school campuses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhite flight\u201d describes the uncomfortably common phenomenon in the mid-to-late 20th century wherein whites would quickly move out of a neighborhood once blacks started moving in. This would often lead to neighborhoods that were mostly-white, but quickly ended up mostly-black. Today, American neighborhoods are not as mono-ethnic as they once were, and the picture has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,14],"tags":[39112,641,39110,96193,39111,110],"class_list":["post-6346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-inequality","category-race","tag-culture","tag-diversity","tag-inequality","tag-microsegregation","tag-race","tag-segregation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346","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\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6350,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions\/6350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}