Residential segregation by race persisted independent of class and education through 1970

Evidence

With respect to residential segregation, in 1965 the Taeubers documented extensive separation of blacks and whites. They concluded that, regardless of region, city size, economic base, local laws, and the extent of other forms of discrimination, there was “a very high degree of segregation of the residences of whites and Negroes” (Taeuber & Taeuber, 1965, p. 35). Van Valey, Roof, and Wilcox (1977) concluded that, between 1960 and 1970, the level of residential segregation by race had changed very little. Farley (1977) demonstrated that racial segregation was not only more extensive in absolute terms than the segregation of social classes, but that it occurred regardless of social class. For example, his analysis of 1970 Census data indicated that “whites who have more than a college education are more residentially segregated from similarly well educated blacks than they are from whites who have never completed a year of school” (p. 514). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3348

Categorization

• QUESTION: Raises the puzzle of a structural inequality so entrenched it overrides class effects — relevant to whether mere ideological/attitudinal change can address group hierarchies, echoing the book’s core question about the loosenability of identity binds.
• XREF: connects to: Residential segregation deepened even as expressed racial prejudice declined; White racial egalitarianism rose while residential segregation simultaneously hardened; Rising middle-class Blacks still faced intensifying discrimination in the 1970s. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1069 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Residential segregation deepened even as expressed racial prejudice declined #corroborates (0.83)
• White racial egalitarianism rose while residential segregation simultaneously hardened #corroborates (0.80)
• Rising middle-class Blacks still faced intensifying discrimination in the 1970s. #expands (0.78) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1069