These ideas about racial identity reveal that African Americans and whites at Crosstown had very different levels of connection to their racial group, different conceptualizations of racial identity, and different ideas about what belonging to a particular racial group means. Close, regular, voluntary interracial interactions did not have an effect on the salience of
racial identity for white attendees of Crosstown, nor did these interactions affect how they understood what racial identity meant for their own lives. They had a lot of difficulty presenting any kind of explanation for the
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