Do declines in residential segregation mean stable neighborhood racial integration in metropolitan America? A research note

Friedman, Samantha

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2007.06.010

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“…Substantial racial changes that do not cause a group to cross the threshold are not registered. Recent studies pieced together transitions from consecutive decades to examine long-term racial change (Friedman 2008;, but the method cannot identify gradual racial change.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These neighborhoods are the product of pre-Civil Rights apartheid created by housing and urban development policies (Jackson 1985;Massey and Denton 1993;Sugrue 1996). Existing research suggests that all-black neighborhoods are likely to remain durably segregated (Friedman 2008;Zhang 2010, 2011). All-white neighborhoods, however, have declined dramatically (summarized in the second row of Table 1).…”

Section: Durable Segregationmentioning

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“…are troubled by the growing number of single-minority segregated neighborhoods (see also Friedman 2008). Zhang (2010:1105) conclude their study by warning of a "new type of polarization...between a zone of increasing diversity and a minority zone where whites are unlikely to ever venture.…”

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The Fragmented Evolution of Racial Integration since the Civil Rights Movement

Bäder¹,

Warkentien²

2018

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Abstract:We argue that existing studies underestimate the degree to which racial change leads to residential segregation in post-Civil Rights American neighborhoods. This is because previous studies only measure the presence of racial groups in neighborhoods, not the degree of integration among those groups. As a result, those studies do not detect gradual racial succession that ends in racially segregated neighborhoods. We demonstrate how a new approach based on growth mixture models can be used to identify patterns of racial change that distinguish between durable integration and gradual racial succession. We use this approach to identify common trajectories of neighborhood racial change among blacks, whites, Latinos, and Asians from 1970 to 2010 in the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston metropolitan areas. We show that many nominally integrated neighborhoods have experienced gradual succession. For blacks, this succession has caused the gradual concentric diffusion of the ghetto; in contrast, Latino and Asian growth has dispersed throughout both cities and suburbs in the metropolitan areas. Durable integration has come about largely in the suburbs.

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The Fragmented Evolution of Racial Integration since the Civil Rights Movement

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2018

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“…There are a number of eco-security estates and gated communities in KDM as referred to by Christopher Friedman (2008) pointed out the difficulty that changing boundaries pose to studies of racial integration over time. KDM is no exception.…”

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“…KDM is no exception. In work on racial segregation and neighbourhood racial integration in metropolitan America, Friedman (2008) highlighted the importance of using standardised geographical boundaries in order to make comparisons over time.…”

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Are the walls giving way to fences? Is racial integration within Kwadukuza municipality leading to income-based class segregation?

Singh¹,

Eeden²

2017

SA J of Geomatics

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The joint distribution of age and race in racially integrated neighbourhoods

Nelson

2021

Population Space and Place

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Like many other wealthy nations, the United States is experiencing substantial population ageing, particularly among Whites, whose median age is over a decade older than Blacks' and Hispanics'. To date, analyses of this demographic divergence have been limited to national and state levels; we know little about its manifestation at smaller scales. This study introduces three micro‐level measures of the joint distribution of age and race, demonstrating that Whites are older than their non‐White neighbours in most integrated neighbourhoods, with notable variation across regional and local characteristics. Racial age gaps significantly predict subsequent declines in neighbourhoods' White population, indicating that racial change has an under‐studied age dimension. Meanwhile, neighbourhoods with relatively younger Whites are rare, clustered in coastal metros, and linked to gentrification. Drawing on theories of multidimensional heterogeneity, I suggest that local consolidation of age and racial differences may undermine stable integration and reinforce inequality.

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Do declines in residential segregation mean stable neighborhood racial integration in metropolitan America? A research note

Cited by 78 publications

References 19 publications

The Fragmented Evolution of Racial Integration since the Civil Rights Movement

The Fragmented Evolution of Racial Integration since the Civil Rights Movement

Are the walls giving way to fences? Is racial integration within Kwadukuza municipality leading to income-based class segregation?

The joint distribution of age and race in racially integrated neighbourhoods

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