Thompson Ford highlights desegregation as the root of resegregation within the general public school systems, while Lubrano demonstrates the influences friends impose. Social order had to be kept or a sense of segregation would accompany people who went against the “social influences”. Lubrano, explains that the working-class often found themselves hiding from others, when he states “So when Rita took sojourns into Greenwich valley by herself on Saturday mornings as a teenager, she made sure not to tell any of her friends. It was too oddball to have to explain”. The reader can interpret a sense of guilt and shame at the want to obtain knowledge. This bazar thinking process is what causes the reader to become aware of the effect peers have,
