Life chances of blacks now depend more on class than race

Evidence

In the United States, at least, the rich are increasingly living apart from the poor. Although rising income inequality and growing class segregation clearly serve to undermine the socioeconomic welfare of all racial and ethnic groups in the United States, the consequences have been particularly severe for African Americans because they are so highly segregated by race. As a result of the hypersegregation of more than one third of all African Americans, and the very high segregation of most of the rest, poor blacks experience far higher concentrations of neighborhood poverty than the poor of any other group. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2435 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race and poverty affect test scores only through their effect on social capital. — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1053; Black racial stereotypes in these samples depend entirely on social class, not race alone. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 157; Race is the lived modality of class, affecting the whole class. (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Class segregation compounds race segregation to hit poor Blacks with the worst neighborhood poverty #complicates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2435