Behind the White Picket Fence

"Mayorga-Gallo offers a deeper understanding of diversity in this thought-provoking ethnographic study.”—CHOICE

“A timely addition to the literature on residential segregation and integration. . . . This book will undoubtedly become a necessary point of reference within and outside academia.”—Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

“An interesting study that unpacks the challenges of integration and its meaning in neighborhoods populated by diverse social and racial groups.”—Journal of American Ethnic History

“Presenting everyday experiences in the context of neighborhood associations, intergenerational interactions, assumptions made among group members about others, and more, this exceptional book challenges us to think afresh about the meaning of diversity.” — Wanda Rushing, University of Memphis

“This tremendously important book is both exciting and unique. Weaving firsthand observations with a bird’s-eye account of how power is distributed and deployed among residents in accordance with class-, race-, and ethnic-based privileges and proclivities, Sarah Mayorga-Gallo shows that spaces can be nominally 'integrated' while remaining functionally segregated.” — Deirdre Royster, New York University

“This excellent book makes a compelling case for how privilege is reproduced in quotidian environments, through banal and seemingly innocuous practices.” — Richard Lloyd, Vanderbilt University