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Southern Californians' Attitudes to Immigrants: Blacks Compared to Other Ethnics
Southern Californians' Attitudes to Immigrants Blacks Compared to Other Ethnics Author:Jonathan Musere This book involves relating theories of socioethnic and kinship ties, and of ethnic antagonism and accommodation to survey data analyzed on Southern Californians' attitudes to immigrants. The background theoretical framework is provided with an added emphasis on black respondents, though the data analysis and discussion involve a comprehensive e... more »xamination of responses of all ethnics surveyed. A basic premise is that the comprehensive understanding of a single ethnic group's attitudes to immigrants is best achieved by relating the study to the attitudes of all the other ethnic groups. This is all the more important in studies of a Southern California which continues to radically transform in regard to ethnic, demographic, and migration dynamics. And the issues of ethnic and foreign relations have, for so long, been central themes in American socioploitics and economics. The striking sociodemographic trends in southern California over the past few decades include the decreasing demographic visibility of blacks and whites, new gentrification patterns, changing job market requirements and locations, and record numbers of immigrants. The social characteristics of the immigrants and their kinship relationships with the native born populations have bearing on the way immigrants are perceived. This book relates how the place of birth, the age, the educational status, and the household income of a person may influence the person's feelings about immigrants. The study is multidimensional insofar as it focuses on Southern Californians as a whole, as consisting of an interethnic overlay, and as divided separately into intraethnic groups consisting of social and economic classes. The study reveals that blacks and whites, the least educated, and the low-income Southern Californians as relatively unsupportive of immigration and foreign culture.« less