Suburban racial innocence made government housing segregation almost unthinkable as a personal concern

Evidence

The spatial landscape and futuristic ethos of the white suburbs shaped a fundamental approval of the status quo, grounded in a historical narrative that emphasized the family privileges of class and consumerism rather than collective remedies for past discrimination. This suburban ideology of racial innocence underlay a predisposition to reject—or more often to fail even to consider—the abstract proposition that the government’s culpability in concentrating black residents in a certain part of the city should have any personal impact on middle-class lifestyles. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 42

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Challenging segregation required exposing how government had shaped housing patterns. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 29; Racial innocence ideology let white suburbanites fail to consider government culpability — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 42; Ghettoization both results from and perpetuates racism through ignorance — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2394 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial innocence ideology let white suburbanites fail to consider government culpability #expands (0.95) — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 42
• 1990s suburbans rebranded desegregation opposition as color-blind neighborhood protection #expands (0.83) — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 109
• Challenging segregation required exposing how government had shaped housing patterns. #expands (0.82) — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 29
• Suburban segregation was reframed as de facto and thus survived legal challenge #expands (0.80) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 28
• Residential segregation was deliberately constructed, not natural or market-driven #complicates (0.79) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 340
• A federal housing project was deliberately built as a segregation buffer #exemplifies (0.75) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 171
• Government housing control can reduce neighborhood segregation #complicates (0.73) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1134
• Ghettoization both results from and perpetuates racism through ignorance #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2394