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A Contact zone is the space in which people that are geographically and historically separated come into contact with each other and establish ongoing relations. In other words a Contact zone is basically a clash of cultures. Examples of Contact zones could be school, work, the arcade, the recreation center, and many other places in our world. How we react and adapt to different Contact zones is a measure of stability and success in our …

…question whether the post-Civil Rights era will go the way of the post-Reconstruction era, when biological definitions of race held their most powerful sway. Whether the segregationist of anti-racist rhetoric will continue to redraw maps in blood, or whether the kindler, gentler supremacist of diversity management will prevail. Social constructionists in the social sciences cannot make their case alone, and in fact are often constrained by their relative lack of influence in their own field.