A superior attitude? Insecurity? Disdain for lesser people? It’s been found that middle-class blacks engage in a variant of segmented assimilation, privileging the black world as a site for socializing even if they live in a white suburb. This selective pattern of assimilation, termed strategic assimilation, suggests that this population of middle-class blacks does not perceive itself as permanently constrained to the bottom rung of a racial hierarchy. Why don’t whites act the same way? Who says they don’t or can’t?
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