According to the prevailing view, blacks have undergone cultural assimilation or acculturation, but racism impedes their structural assimilation, that is, integration into mainstream "social cliques, clubs and institutions at the primary group level" leading some theorits to the conclusion that the assimilation model is most useful for understanding the incorporation of voluntary immigrants, not native gorn blacks who entered de US involuntarily and were selectively incorporated through enslavement (Pg.202).
An example of growing up around blacks we can see it on Michael from Riverton(Pg.206). He stated: "I can tell black people that didn't grow up around other blak people, cause they are different...I haven't been able to put my finger on it. It's either the expression, the way they give five, I mean its just something they missed; and that's not positive or negative, they just don't have an ingredient (Pg.206)
Blacks who did grow up around other black people hold a more salient racial identity than those who did not. Both groups believe that racial identity is suturued primarily through social interaction in the black world, and that black who miss the experience fail to interpret correctly the cultural cues group members use to draw boundaries around the black world (Pg.207)
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