Rethinking “Diversity” Through Analyzing Residential Segregation Among Hispanics in Phoenix, Miami, and Chicago

Abstract

Hispanics are an internally diverse population, yet residential segregation within census-defined groups is often overlooked. Census data are used to examine evenness and exposure segregation among Hispanics in Chicago, Miami, and Phoenix along the lines of national origin, race, year of arrival, and income. Results suggest that segregation exists in Miami where there is more national origin diversity, between white and black Hispanics in Chicago, in all three cities for foreign-born Hispanic recent arrivals, and especially between highand low-income Hispanics. Attempts to theorize immigration, social capital and solidarity, and the future of democratic society have inadequately conceptualized "diversity"; our work critically employs quantitative analysis to suggest an enriched and more nuanced socio-spatial understanding of the term.

An environmental justice assessment of public beach access in Miami, Florida

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Race and ethnicity III

“…'[T]he contemporary United States is becoming more residentially segregated and more diverse concurrently' (Wright et al, 2014: 176), both with respect to racialized segregation and mixing amongst broad racial categories, as well as within categories. Lukinbeal et al (2012) found Cuban and CubanAmerican self-segregation to be a driver of urban ethnic concentrations in Miami amongst Latinos.…”

Korean Americans in Los Angeles: Decentralized Concentration and Socio‐spatial Disparity

“…There are a few scholars, though, who have used income/class as a more important predictor of segregation compared to race/ethnicity, and have concluded that income-based within-group inequalities can be far greater than between-group differences caused by racism when explaining contemporary residential segregation patterns (De Oliver and Dawson-Munoz 1996). Likewise, Lukinbeal, Price, and Buell (2012), in their analyses of various within-group Hispanic segregation in Chicago, Miami, and Phoenix suggested that withingroup segregation by income was as significant as between-group segregation across the three study sites. Some scholars have also called it the 'Tortilla-Mercedes Divide' (Allen 2002)-largely referring to the strong roles of income and class in segregating communities.…”