ABSTRACT
The importance of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity among the people of cities became much more significant. Albert Camarillo's work specifically addresses three small California cities, Lynwood, East Palo Alto, and Seaside on the Pacific coast near Monterey. The emergence of minority-majority cities throughout California, and the nation in general, signals a fundamental demographic shift in American society and a seismic change in inter-group relations. Indeed, the residential segregation of people of color in California, most acutely experienced by blacks, was part and parcel of a widespread, national phenomenon, aided and abetted by the discriminatory practices of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). There were many reasons for the breakdown of racially segregated neighborhoods, but the results were the same in most localities, white flight. The inter-group conflicts and tensions that people hear are part of the realities of the new racial frontier in minority-majority cities.
