Title
A Cosmopolitan Way Of Life For All?: A Reassessment Of The Impact Of Urban And Region On Racial Attitudes From 1972 To 2006
Keywords
Racial attitudes; Region; Urban
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to re-evaluate the independent impact of urban and regional residency on racial tolerance from 1972 to 2006. Recent scholarship has questioned the extent to which the effects of these subcultures reflect general toleration and/or more deep-seated underlying racial attitudes. Using data collected by the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey, this article builds upon past research by including different measures of racial tolerance borrowed from the contemporary work of Schuman, Steeh, Bobo, and Krysan to reassess the impact of these subcultures over a four-decade period. Findings indicate that Southerners remain more obdurate regardless of how racial tolerance is measured and this effect appears to be persisting across the four-decade period. The impact of urbanism, on the other hand, and its effect across time is much more variable and dependent on how racial tolerance is measured. This article further discusses these findings in the framework of the classical theories of Louis Wirth and Samuel Stouffer. © 2010 The Author(s).
Publication Date
6-24-2010
Publication Title
Journal of Black Studies
Volume
40
Issue
6
Number of Pages
1075-1093
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934708325464
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
77953721570 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77953721570
STARS Citation
Carter, J. Scott, "A Cosmopolitan Way Of Life For All?: A Reassessment Of The Impact Of Urban And Region On Racial Attitudes From 1972 To 2006" (2010). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 982.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/982