Mig vs immmmmm

Linden Hills represents a class position. For the african american characters in the novel, this upper class suburban destination represents all the things denied to their ancestors. Born and raised in the americas, the product of an apalling injustice, these characters equate living in Linden hills with achieving what, because of their blackness, they were never supposed to achieve. In essence, by marginalizing the low class black characters outside of linden hills, the "niggers," these characters erase their own blackness, transfering onto other african american people who emobdy the economic and social marginalization that embodies the black identity construction in America. In essence, Linden hills is the ticket for black people to become white, to experience the benefits their opressors experience by illiminating every different save their darker pigment, until it becomes but a discreet discrepency. Any differences that exist in between African American culture and white american culture are erased, it as a complete assimilation. This explains the slightly embarassed description of the fried chicken dinner that Lester's family eats when they have willy over..."it's easy and it fills you up..." This fried chicken is what separates Lester's familie from one residing on tupelo drive. Looking at the soical history of the suburbs, it makes sense that African Americans seeking to tap into the priviledge granted white people will want to move to the suburbs....as minorities populated the cities, whites flew to the suburbs to preserve that priviledge, so therefor it must lie there. The alliance between the black characters is out of necesity, but in the present of the novel is not an alliance meant for black empowerment or liberation.
Meanwhile, the Gugalis are Indian Americans. The suburbs have a far more innocent apeal to this family...it is a safe place to raise a family, close to Ashoke's workplace and the next logical step as they reach the next income bracket. They are not trying to engrain themselves in white suburban privilege...rice crispies are merely a surrogate. If anything, Gogol's family tries desperately to preserve their Bengali heritage, through rituals, food, language, culture, and a network or Bengali friends. Immigration is a convergence of identities, life as an immigrant is a constant reconsiliation of two contrasting identities. Ashima and Ashoke never seek to recreate another form of life. They do not emulate american class symbols while erasing their own culture. Their existence is more 3 dimensional. They don't see themselves as moving up in a class hierarchy, rather they are gaining benefits from participating in the US culture and economy while still trying to maintain their own cultural heritage.