Racism And Racial Segregation

In this chapter blacks are blamed for their separation into ghettos which supposedly causes them to suffer from culture poverty, and whites social and spatial segregation The white habitus a racialized uninterrupted socialization process that conditions and creates whites racial taste, perception, feelings and emotions and their views on racial matters. The main problem with white habitus outlook is that it puts negative views on blacks and a positive view on whites intergroup belonging. The three primary issues examined are white’s residential segregation and relationships with minorities, interruption of their racial segregation and exile from blacks, and consequences of whites reduced amount of communication. Students were interviewed and four out of forty-one lived in segregated neighborhoods. Minorities in their residents made up of twenty percent, and DAS students had eight out of sixty-six students who were raised in a mixed neighborhood. Based on self-reports thirty-four of the forty-one college students did not have black friends as youth. Close friends exhibit is the …show more content…
Surveys have proven when status differences are present within groups they develop group thinking. Whites showed high levels of isolation from the outgroup and do not interrupt their racial segregation. Whites either see this as no problem or explain it with a nonracial response. Whites attitudes towards interracial marriage was the outcome of white’s habitus. The separation of races effects the fact of assimilation groups. The social psychology whites’ habitus displayed positive self-views and negative views on blacks. This factor caused correlation between white’s assumptions of blacks in today’s society. These assumptions are they are lazy, dependent on the state for income, and receive preferential treatment because their minorities. All of these negative views affect other relationships with minorities and the dominant