Socius has recently published a piece by Sherelle Ferguson, Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple University College of Education and Human Development and Annette Lareau, Professor of Sociology, titled, “Hostile Ignorance, Class, and Same-Race Friendships: Perspectives of Working-Class College Students.”
Per the Abstract: "In the growing literature on upwardly mobile college students, there is evidence of students from working-class backgrounds experiencing exclusion on campus. Yet there has been insufficient attention to interactions between working-class students and their more affluent same-race friends. Drawing on 44 in-depth interviews with undergraduates from working-class backgrounds at two private universities, the authors show that Black, white, and Asian American students experience classist interactions with same-race friends characterized by what the authors term hostile ignorance.."