Urban centers are now typically more affluent and white-washed while suburbs have become lower-income areas.
He notes that this has reversed in recent years with urban gentrification and the decline of aging suburbs. Chang explores the history of cities in which affluent white people fled to the suburbs and poor people of color were pushed into inner-city subsidized housing. The next essay is about resegregation more specifically as it explores gentrification, income disparity, and shifting demographics in American cities. Chang writes about the Oscars and Hollywood as white-washed industries as well as how arts funding disproportionately benefits majority-white cultural institutions. Chapter Three, The Odds, on Cultural Equity is about the lack of representation of minority groups in popular culture, the arts, and the media. He explores how campuses not only lack representation of minority groups among faculty and staff but are also places of active discrimination where minority students often feel unsafe and unwelcome. In the second essay, Chang writes about student protest. Chang writes about affirmative action and those who protest it, as well as how so-called diversity efforts have been harnessed by big businesses for capitalist gain. He then writes about how diversity has become co-opted as a concept, often serving the needs of white people to seem elite and non-racist instead of actually reducing segregation or discrimination. In the first essay, Chang writes about how Donald Trump capitalized on white fears throughout his presidential campaign, further polarizing the country while both reflecting and contributing to rising xenophobia and white nationalism.
In this book, Chang will look at some of the ways in which the United States has slid back toward segregation in the years since the Civil Rights movement. In the introduction, author Jeff Chang highlights contemporary issues around race in America that have been exacerbated by resegregation and culture wars. We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Chang, Jeff.
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