When reading the Lacy piece, I was just in shock in general
about how the desirability of racial integration was still frowned on from all
different races. The way Lacy drew on interviews with thirty middle class black
couples and ethnographic study in two distinct middle class suburban
communities in DC. I was really impressed the way she focused especially on the
symbolic distinctions drawn by respondents, as a means of marking off the black
world as a strategy for negotiating the transition from the black to white
world. I was really in shock by one of the middle class black families saying
if there daughter wanted to marry a white men, how he would be a “red-neck” and
how it would indirectly be frowned around from everyone in her family. It just
really boggles my mind that there are still a lot of forms of social inequality
in all parts of society. Especially after everything our country has gone through,
you would think that it would be close to elimination, but no it is alive and
well.
