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Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Assessing Changes in the Meaning and Significance of Race and Ethnicity / Amanda E. Lewis, Maria Krysan, and Nakisha Harris -- Part I. The Changing Manifestations of Race in Attitudes and Institutions -- Chapter 2. Inequalities That Endure? Racial Ideology, American Politics, and the Peculiar Role of the Social Sciences / Lawrence D. Bobo -- Chapter 3. Color-Blind Racism and Racial Indifference: The Role of Racial Apathy in Facilitating Enduring Inequalities / Tyrone A. Forman

This review examines the intersection of prejudice, politics, and public opinion. It focuses specifically on research that seeks to understand the sources of attitudes toward policies intended to benefit African Americans and other racial/ethnic minorities by ensuring equal treatment, providing opportunity enhancement, or striving for equal outcomes. After a review of the main patterns of white and African-American public opinion on this topic, three central theoretical interpretations of racial policy attitudes—new racism, politics and nonracial principles and values, and group conflict theories—are described and compared. The empirical evidence for each approach is assessed. Finally, directions of research that pursue a more complex view of racial policy attitudes are introduced. These include efforts to incorporate insights across theoretical domains as well as correcting an overemphasis on cognitive issues to the exclusion of affect. In addition, gaps in our understanding of "non-white" attitudes, nonprejudiced respondents, nonracial policies, and non-Americans are identified as potentially fertile ground for future research aimed at understanding the complexity of racial policy attitudes and what these can reveal about contemporary US race relations.

Reports a tripartite survey-based experiment (total N = 1,796 respondents [Rs] in Detroit, MI, in 1994), comparing answers to racial attitude questions under three conditions of privacy: a standard survey condition, where interviewers asked all questions; a modified face-to-face condition, where Rs answered a subset of racial questions in a self-administered form; & a completely noninterviewer condition, where questionnaires were mailed to & returned by Rs. Three hypotheses are investigated: (1) White Rs will express less liberal racial attitudes as privacy increases. (2) Privacy effects are greatest for questions about the principles of racial equality & other traditional racial attitudes & least for questions about racial policies & symbolic racism. (3) Privacy effects are stronger among the highly educated, who are more aware of current norms & thus feel social desirability pressures with greater force. Results offer some support for the social desirability hypothesis, especially among more educated Rs. However, contrary to expectations, the effects occur more consistently for racial policies than traditional racial attitudes. Instead of treating privacy effects as "errors," in a simple sense, supplementary qualitative interview are drawn on to connect the survey results to the larger normative change in white racial attitudes. Other complicating factors, eg, acquiescent tendencies among less educated Rs, are also considered. 5 Tables, 2 Figures, 1 Appendix, 51 References. Adapted from the source document.

Acknowledgements -- Segregation then and now -- Historical roots of segregation and the need for a new lens -- Patterns and consequences of segregation -- The structural sorting perspective -- A new lens on segregation -- Social networks : the social part of the theory -- From what I see : the context part of the theory -- Residential stratification and the decision-making process -- Revisiting the traditional theories through the structural sorting perspective -- The structural sorting perspective on the role of economics factors -- The structural sorting perspective on the role of preferences -- The structural sorting perspective on the role of discrimination -- Implications -- Policies to redress the cycle of segregation -- New approaches to understanding segregation -- Appendix tables -- Notes -- References -- Index.

In recent years, the size of the Latino immigrant population has swelled in communities throughout the United States. For decades, social scientists have studied how social context, particularly a minority group's relative size, affects the sentiments of the dominant group. Using a random sample survey of five communities in suburban Chicago, the authors examine the impact of Latino population concentration on native-born white residents' subjective perceptions of threat from Latino immigrants at two micro-level geographies: the immediate block and the surrounding blocks. After controlling for Latino population size in surrounding blocks, percentage Latino in the immediate block does not influence perceptions of threat from Latino immigrants. The effect of surrounding blocks' population size is consistent with group threat theories for white residents: the larger the Latino population, the greater the perceived threat.

In the past two decades, there has been a sharp increase in the number of studies on racial residential integration. However, there is a fair amount of disagreement in this work about how to conceptualize integration and how to operationalize it in research. We conduct a research synthesis of published research from 1950 to 2013 to uncover (1) how scholars have defined integration, (2) how scholars have measured integration, and (3) which ethnic/racial groups are integrating with whom. We have three key findings. First, the definition of integration moved away from being a multidimensional concept—involving both racial mixing in neighborhoods and cross-racial interactions—to solely referring to the racial composition. Second, the measurement of integration varies tremendously across time. Third, although the combination of ethnic/racial groups has expanded from Whites and Blacks sharing a residential space to include other groups such as Asians and Hispanics, these differences are often not made explicit. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings.