The Buffering Hypothesis: Growing Diversity and Declining Black-White Segregation in America’s Cities, Suburbs, and Small Towns?

Parisi, Domenico; Lichter, Daniel T.; Taquino, Michael

doi:10.15195/v2.a8

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“…Numerous studies using different methods have reported a decline in all-white neighborhoods and increasing diversity at the neighborhood level (Farrell and Lee 2011, Brown and Sharma 2010, Iceland and Sharp 2013, Lee, Iceland and Farrell 2014, Parisi, Lichter and Taquino 2015, Ellen, Horn, and O’Regan 2012, Bader and Warkentien forthcoming). The specific category of global neighborhood, however, is only one form that diversity can take.…”

Section: Metropolitan Contexts For Neighborhood Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Global Neighborhoods: Beyond the Multiethnic Metropolis

Zhang

Logan

2016

Demography

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Neighborhoods where blacks and whites live in integrated settings alongside Hispanics and Asians represent a new phenomenon in the United States. These “global neighborhoods” have previously been identified in the nation’s most diverse metropolitan centers. This study examines the full range of metropolitan areas to ask whether similar processes are occurring in other parts of the country. Is there evidence of stable racial integration in places that lack such diversity? What are the paths of neighborhood change in areas with few Hispanic or Asian residents, or areas where Hispanics are the principal minority group, or where there is no large minority presence at all? We distinguish four types of metropolitan regions: white, white/black, white/Hispanic/Asian, and multiethnic. These necessarily differ greatly in neighborhood composition, but some similar trajectories of neighborhood change are found in all of them. The results provide new evidence of the effect of Hispanic and Asian presence on black-white segregation in all parts of the country.

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Section: Metropolitan Contexts For Neighborhood Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Global Neighborhoods: Beyond the Multiethnic Metropolis

Zhang

Logan

2016

Demography

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“…Thus, a diverse community may be more or less segregated contingent on whether whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians live in isolation from one another or share the same neighborhoods. This analytic distinction between the two concepts is confirmed by their empirical association, which remains modest and inconsistent (Defina & Hannon 2009; Iceland 2004; Parisi et al 2013). …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Bucking the Trend: Is Ethnoracial Diversity Declining in American Communities?

Lee

Hughes

2014

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Although increasing diversity at the national scale is a well-documented trend, substantial variation in patterns of ethnoracial change occurs across American communities. Our research considers one theoretically implied path: that some communities are ‘bucking the trend’, becoming more homogeneous over time. Using 1980 through 2010 decennial census data, we calculate panethnic (five-group) entropy index scores to measure the magnitude of diversity for nearly 11,000 census-defined places. Our results indicate that while certain places reach their diversity peak in 1980 or 1990, they are few in number. Moreover, they experience a variety of post-peak trajectories other than monotonic diversity decline. Decreasing diversity is concentrated in the South and West, among places with higher levels of diversity and larger proportions of Hispanic or black residents at the beginning of the study period. These places exhibit complex shifts in racial-ethnic structure, but Hispanic succession predominates.

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“…Despite such consequences, far more attention has been devoted to the ethnoracial diversity of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, places, and neighborhoods (Farrell and Lee 2011; Hall, Tach, and Lee 2016; Logan and Zhang 2010; Parisi, Lichter, and Taquino 2015) than of states. The scant literature on state diversity that exists often fails to conceptualize diversity in careful fashion or to track it over an extended period (Arreola 2004; Brewer and Suchan 2001; Bump, Lowell, and Pettersen 2005; for an exception, see Wright et al 2014).…”

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A universal trend? State-level changes in US racial and ethnic diversity, 1980 to 2015

Lee¹,

Martin²,

Matthews³

et al. 2017

DemRes

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Background Few studies have examined long-term changes in ethnoracial diversity for US states despite the potential social, economic, and political ramifications of such changes at the state level. Objective We describe shifts in diversity magnitude and structure from 1980 through 2015 to determine if states are following a universal upward path. Methods Decennial census data for 1980-2010 and American Community Survey data for 2015 are used to compute entropy index (E) and Simpson index (S) measures of diversity magnitude based on five panethnic populations. A typology characterizes the racial-ethnic structure of states. Results While initial diversity level and subsequent pace of change vary widely, every state has increased in diversity magnitude since 1980. A dramatic decline in the number of predominantly White states has been accompanied by the rise of states with multigroup structures that include Hispanics. These diverse states are concentrated along the coasts and across the southern tier of the nation. Differences in panethnic population growth (especially rapid Hispanic and Asian growth coupled with white stability) drive the diversification trend. Conclusions The diversity hierarchy among states has remained relatively stable over the past 35 years in the face of universal gains in diversity magnitude and the increasing heterogeneity of racial-ethnic structures. Contribution We document ethnoracial diversity patterns at an understudied geographic scale where diversity may have important consequences across a range of institutional domains.

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The Buffering Hypothesis: Growing Diversity and Declining Black-White Segregation in America’s Cities, Suburbs, and Small Towns?

Cited by 63 publications

References 3 publications

Global Neighborhoods: Beyond the Multiethnic Metropolis

Global Neighborhoods: Beyond the Multiethnic Metropolis

Bucking the Trend: Is Ethnoracial Diversity Declining in American Communities?

A universal trend? State-level changes in US racial and ethnic diversity, 1980 to 2015

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