Kmele Foster, Robert Woodson, Shelby Steele & Reihan Salam – The Ethics of Black Identity
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The Persistence of Black Identity
If there were no barriers to intermarriage, you would not see the persistence of a distinct identifiable group with its own form of vernacular English. The force sustaining that distinctiveness could be status or could be stigma, both forms of it. Think about Jewish Americans, for example. Here is a group where large numbers of Jewish Americans out marry, but perhaps less than you'd expect if they were just another European ethnic group. There's an attractive poll to remaining part of the group.
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