Drawing on 40 interviews with white parents in two mixed-income neighborhoods—one that is majority-white and the other that is multiracial—this article examines how residence in socioeconomically diverse neighborhoods conditions the parenting practices of middle-class whites, specifically concerning parents’ management of their children’s contact with the poor. The data reveal that white parents in both neighborhoods work to ensure symbolic and spatial distance between their children and their poor neighbors resulting in distinctive patterns of micro-segregation in each neighborhood. However, how parents engage in this work depends on the race of their neighbors and the block-level geography of their community. I find that parents deploy more contact-avoidant practices toward their poor white rather than their poor black neighbors. Among participants, poor whites conjure feelings of disgust and are actively avoided, whereas poor black residents provoke feelings of ambivalence, as contact with them is judged to be both valuable and threatening.

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管理差异：社会经济多元化社区的白人育儿实践

通过对两个混合收入社区的白人父母的 40 次采访——一个是白人占多数，另一个是多种族——本文研究了居住在社会经济多元化社区如何影响中产阶级白人的育儿实践，特别是关于父母的管理孩子与穷人的接触。数据显示，两个社区的白人父母都在努力确保他们的孩子与贫困邻居之间的符号和空间距离，从而导致每个社区的微观隔离模式都不同。然而，父母如何参与这项工作取决于他们邻居的种族和他们社区的街区地理。我发现父母对他们可怜的白人而不是他们可怜的黑人邻居采取了更多避免接触的做法。