How do theories of assimilation contribute to understanding

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a. How do theories of assimilation contribute to our understanding of Black identity development in the United States? Be sure to discuss, in detail, how Karyn Lacy's study on Black middle-class suburbanites informs your response.

b. Describe why and how Joe Feagin's respondents develop strategies to navigate a predominantly White world. In what ways is their repertoire of strategies informed by the "historical context of contemporary discrimination" (Feagin, 115)?

Be sure to discuss Feagin's key findings and how they inform sociologists' understanding of Black identity development. Joe R. Feagin. 1991. The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places. (American Sociological Review 56:101-116). Karyn R. Lacy, 2004, Black Middle-Class Suburbia. (Patricia Adler.)

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