In the nonfictional novel, More Than Just Race, a black professor from Harvard University stumbled upon a structural force while waiting in an elevator. He noticed the person, who was also in the elevator, felt uncomfortable when he wore causal clothes as opposed to wearing a shirt and tie. The professor assumed it was probably because of how black people with casual clothes act through the lens of the media. The two types of cultural forces the professor described in the novel were national views and beliefs on race and cultural traits (14 &15). Racism played a major role in determining how whites perceived and acted towards blacks (15). There were many forces that shaped concentrated poverty, separation between blacks and whites, technology
