Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/author/sarah-mayorga-gallo/)
Sarah is a qualitative sociologist at the University of Massachusetts Boston who studies racial inequality, urban neighborhoods, and Latinx migration. Her book, Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood was awarded the 2015 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award by the American Sociological Association’s Latino/a Sociology Section.
American cities are getting more diverse, but neighbors of different races don’t necessarily socialize with each other. A sociologist in North Carolina discovered one surprising reason why.