In Living with Racism: The Black Middle-Class Experience (1994), sociologist Joe Feagin and psychologist Melvin Sikes write about middle-class African Americans who, despite their class status, continue to face racial discrimination. What concept did this study serve to highlight?

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Jaidyn Baker

10 December, 12:26

In Living with Racism: The Black Middle-Class Experience (1994), sociologist Joe Feagin and psychologist Melvin Sikes write about middle-class African Americans who, despite their class status, continue to face racial discrimination. What concept did this study serve to highlight?

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Bailey Wise · Answer 1

A racist society.

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The position of both authors is that being black, even for those who have reached the middle class, is that they live with racism every day. The researchers interviewed more than two hundred middle-class American blacks, the authors examined racism in public places and accommodation, within educational institutions, in the middle-class workplace, within the business world, in housing and In everyday encounters. Inevitably but its cumulative power is undeniable. Readers are made to feel the humiliations and hostility that blacks face in what remains, to a surprising degree today, a racist society.