Millennials & the myth of the post-racial society: Black youth, intra-generational divisions & the continuing racial divide in American politics

Daedalus

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 197-205

  Cohen, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 79955397621     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00087     Document Type: Article

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2. Chuck Raash, "Generations Reshape Gay Marriage Debate," USA Today, May 21, 2009, http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2009-05-21-new-politics_N.htm.
3. Matt Bai, "Beneath Divides Seemingly about Race Are Generational Fault Lines," The New York Times, July 17, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/us/politics/18bai.html.
4. Data from the byp were collected from July 2005 to November 2005. There were 1,590 total respondents to the survey, ages fifteen to twenty-five, including an oversample of blacks. The byp research team developed and tested the questionnaire. The survey was administered by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago under the title of "Youth Culture Survey." For more information on the survey and methodology or to download the data, see http://www.blackyouthproject.com.
5. Panel data from the mcpce project are drawn from a random sample of the population of households in the United States. The survey sample for this study is a nationally representative panel survey that includes oversamples of blacks, Latinos, Asians, and young people ages eighteen to thirty-five. One-third of the Latino respondents came from Spanish language-dominant homes who received the questionnaire in Spanish. The questionnaire was administered through Knowledge Networks. For more information on the survey and methodology or to download the data, see http://www.2008andbeyond.com.
6. Michael C. Dawson, Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press), 1994.
7. Donald R. Kinder and Lynn M. Sanders, Divided by Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 1996.
8. Lawrence Bobo, "Whites' Opposition to Busing: Symbolic Racism or Realistic Group Conflict?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 45 (1983): 1196-1210.
9. Kathy Bergen, "African-Americans Hit Inordinately Hard by Recession: Staggering High Unemployment among Black Middle Class Wipes Out a Generation of Wealth," Chicago Tribune, November 6, 2009, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-06/news/0911050858_1_african-americans-recession-unemployment.
10. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, 3rd ed. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).