BLACK YOUTH IN PREDOMINANTLY WHITE SUBURBS

2006 ◽  
pp. 58-68
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
White Suburbs

The Education and Employment of Low-Income Black Youth in White Suburbs

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie E. Kaufman ◽  
James E. Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
College Attendance ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
White Suburbs

This study examines education and employment outcomes of Black youth whose families moved from mostly Black urban housing projects to either mostly White suburbs or other mostly Black urban areas. The study examined high school retention, grades, track placement, college attendance, employment, wages, job prestige, and job benefits. Despite concerns about disadvantages due to discrimination and competition with White peers, the suburban youth did significantly better than urban youth in practically all areas. In the suburbs, mothers and youth pointed to positive effects of higher educational standards, additional academic help, greater access to information about college enrollment, and positive role models.

The Racial Geographies of Criminal Panic

2019 ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
Nicholas Rush Smith
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Predominantly Black ◽  
White Suburbs

How are the politics of crime in South Africa’s predominantly white suburbs and predominantly black townships similar or different? Through an analysis of what organizers billed as the largest anti-crime protest in South Africa’s history—a virtually all-white affair at a Pretoria rugby club—the chapter shows similarities between the areas in the claims made about crime, and particularly about how the post-apartheid rights regime enables insecurity. However, the chapter reveals two important differences between the suburbs and townships. First, it shows the more directly racialized language through which fear of crime is expressed in the suburbs. Second, it shows how vigilante violence is differently practiced in the different areas, as it is aimed primarily at “outsiders” in South Africa’s suburbs rather than “insiders” in the country’s townships.

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