Book Review: American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass DOUGLAS MASSY and NANCY DENTON Cambridge: Harvard University Press 291 pp., $23.50

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“…The US respondents do not have to worry about their status as US citizens. Their exclusion manifests economically as they are subject to institutional racism and segregation (Sharkey 2013;Alexander 2010;Pattillo 1999;Massey and Denton 1994). As a result, the narratives of the young men reflect security in their American identity even though their life-course history testifies to the marginalization they have suffered.…”

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“…Fleeing Southern Jim Crow laws and economic devastation after World War II, the "great migration" of African Americans led to a massive increase of the Black population in Northern industrial cities such as Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia. As has been extensively documented elsewhere, moving north did not bring prosperity but led to the creation of segregated and resource deprived inner-city communities (Satter 2009;Conley 2009;Venkatesh 2002;Massey and Denton 1994). Today, segregation remains a social problem that also affects middle-class African American families.…”

Section: Narratives Of Difference and Exclusion In Germany And The Un...mentioning

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“…The ethnic diversity of the United States, as well as the comparatively straightforward access to citizenship, masks the well-known reality of residential segregation. Paradoxically, the African American and Latino respondents had very limited opportunities to interact with white middle-or upper-middle-class peers (Massey 2020;Shedd 2015;Massey and Denton 1994). As a result, their identity construction took place in relation to the minority communities they were part of.…”

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The Price of Freedom: Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States

Soyer

2023

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Shedding light on how we might end mass incarceration, The Price of Freedom compares the histories and goals of the US and German justice systems. Drawing on in-depth interviews with incarcerated young men in the United States and Germany, Michaela Soyer argues that the apparent lenience of the German criminal justice system is founded on the violent enforcement of cultural homogeneity at the hands of the German welfare state. Demonstrating how both societies have constructed a racialized underclass of outsiders, this book emphasizes that criminal justice reformers in the United States need to move beyond European models in order to build a truly just, diverse society.

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2023

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“…Blacks are a classic case of internal foreignness since the United States has always wrestled with how and whether they fit into American society, leading to enduring racial trauma. Per Duyvendak, Kesic, and Stacey, nativist responses have included everything from repeated proposals to expel blacks to foreign countries, complete segregation, to present‐day limbo, where blacks are suspended between progress and rejection (Bobo 2011; Guterl 2008; Massey 2005; Massey and Denton 1993; Southard 2019). Nor has nativism been limited only to blacks.…”

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Nativism Redux

Vickerman

2023

Sociological Forum

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“…On other hand, Black Caribbean immigrants likely face forms of racial discrimination that contribute to common experiences and identities with African Americans. To a greater degree than non-Black immigrants, Black immigrants are more likely to live in racially segregated communities near African Americans with much higher concentrations of unemployment, crime, poor schools, and other poverty related ills (Massey and Denton 1995). Close interactions with African Americans along with outsiders' lack of recognition of their ethnic distinctions have led some second generation Black Caribbean Americans to identify as African American (Waters 1999).…”

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Religious Non-involvement Among African Americans, Black Caribbeans and Non-hispanic Whites: Findings from the National Survey of American Life

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Taylor

Chatters

2013

Review of Religious Research

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This study examines the association between race/ethnicity, socio-demographic characteristics, and religious non-involvement among a national sample of African Americans, Black Caribbeans and Non-Hispanic Whites. The relationship between religious non-involvement and selected measures of religious participation, spirituality, religious coping is also examined. The study utilizes data from a national multi-stage probability sample, the National Survey of American Life ( n = 6,082). Very few individuals, <1 out of 20 respondents, both never attended religious services and have no current denomination. Overall, <8 % have never attended religious services since the age of 18. Both African Americans and Black Caribbeans were significantly less likely than non-Hispanic Whites to report never attending religious services and not having a current denomination. The greater reliance upon religious institutions for support and guidance among African Americans and Black Caribbean Americans relative to Non-Hispanic Whites may help explain the importance of race in predicting religious non-involvement. Women, married persons, Southerners, and the more highly educated are significantly more likely to be involved in religion. Finally, this study indicates that the religiously non-involved are less likely than others to participate in religious activities, to identify as spiritual, and to rely upon religion to cope with trying circumstances. Nonetheless, even respondents who never attend religious services and do not have a denomination still report some level of religious participation along with relatively high levels of religious coping. We posit that religious non-involvement is less indicative of apostasy, but rather likely reflects a critique of organized religion.

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Book Review: American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass DOUGLAS MASSY and NANCY DENTON Cambridge: Harvard University Press 291 pp., $23.50

Cited by 4 publications

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The Price of Freedom: Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States

The Price of Freedom: Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States

Nativism Redux

Religious Non-involvement Among African Americans, Black Caribbeans and Non-hispanic Whites: Findings from the National Survey of American Life

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