Looking Back at White Working-Class Racial Attitudes and Behaviors in the Late 1940s: An Updated Analysis

We re-analyze quantitative and qualitative data from a study of a white, working-class neighborhood in mid-twentieth century Chicago to pursue two research goals. First, we test how attitudes toward blacks as coworkers and neighbors are correlated, and determine whether those attitudes are associate...

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Published in:Sociological quarterly 2020-10, Vol.61 (4), p.656-677
Main Authors: Reitzes, Donald C., Jaret, Charles, Rockwell, Ashley
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
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Attitudes
Black people
Black white relations
Community and urban sociology
Efficacy
Home ownership
Minority groups
Neighborhoods
Neighbors
Race relations
racial and ethnic minorities
Racial attitudes
Racial identity
social psychology
Sociology
Urban sociology
Working class
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Summary:We re-analyze quantitative and qualitative data from a study of a white, working-class neighborhood in mid-twentieth century Chicago to pursue two research goals. First, we test how attitudes toward blacks as coworkers and neighbors are correlated, and determine whether those attitudes are associated with commitment to the union and neighborhood attachment. Second, we address three timely issues in urban sociology and race relations: (1) how community efficacy is related to attitudes toward racial exclusion, (2) whether white homeowners are likely to oppose racial minorities as neighbors due to fears over property value decline, and (3) the "whitening" process by which people of southern and eastern European ancestry came to embrace a white racial identity.
ISSN:0038-0253
1533-8525
DOI:10.1080/00380253.2019.1711253