Intergenerational Mobility Among Black Americans

Background Factors and Attitudinal Consequences

Bibliographic Data

ID18993281
AuthorsJon P Alston (Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines Université de Lyon, corresponding author), Melvin J Knapp (Department of Sociology University of Georgia)
Year1974
Volume4
Issue3
Pages285-302
Publication date1974-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002193477400400305
OpenAlexW2562279882
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

The major aim of civil rights and black militant groups has been to eliminate two types of racial discrimination faced by blacks: symbolic and material. Symbolic types of discrimination involve statements and actions which define blacks as inferior to whites. Examples of these are such things as riding in the back of the bus, separate public facilities, and the exclusion of blacks in normally accepted activities such as the existence of all-white clubs, all-white churches, and segregated housing and educational patterns. We define these as symbolic, for they reinforce and reflect whites' conception of black inferiority. As such, their nature is primarily symbolic and the direct effect is a psychological one.' Much of the civil rights efforts at racial integration, such as the work

Civil rights · Criminology · Militant · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Sociology · The Symbolic · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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