The Effect of Residential Segregation on Black Social and Economic Well-Being

Lifecourse Social Conditions and Racial and Ethnic Patterns of Cognitive Aging

“…In landmark work on residential segregation, Massey and Denton proposed measuring metropolitan racial residential segregation along five dimensions: evenness of residence across the city; exposure of minority group members to majority group members residing in the same neighborhood; clustering of minority dominated neighborhoods into one large, contiguous enclave; centralization around an urban core, and concentration within a small geographic area (Massey and Denton 1988). They argued that the uniquely extreme segregation on at least four dimensions (termed hypersegregation) faced by African-Americans in many urban areas played an important role in constraining socioeconomic opportunities (Massey et al 1987;Massey and Denton 1989). For example, in the 2000 Census, the average metropolitan white lived in a neighborhood that was 80% white and only 7% black.…”

Residential segregation and well-being inequality over time: A study on the local and migrant elderly people in Shanghai

“…Well-being related resources are primarily operationalized as individual resources referring to income, socio-economic status, health, and social networks (Diener, 2009;Nieboer, Lindenberg, Boomsma, & Van Bruggen, 2005). Little is known, however, about the geographical well-being resources associated with residential environments, such as the availability of and accessibility to certain well-being related resources including facilities, services, opportunities, healthy and safe environments, and supportive social relationships (Addae-Dapaah, 2008;Hao et al, 2011;Massey, Condran, & Denton, 1987). Even less knowledge is available on the specific well-being resources for the elderly, and the well-being implications of residential segregation.…”

Race/ethnicity, homeownership, and neighborhood attachment

“…This account is, in particular, supported on the ground that their unstable, relatively lower economic statuses tend to forbid the creation of their own social networks in a community, weaken their preexisting local ties, and at the same time, facilitate their social isolation from their black neighbors (Massey, Condran, & Denton, 1987;Wilson, 1987). With the inquiry of racial neighborhood attachment, this study is also intended to examine neighborhood attachment in the context of ethnicity by including urban Latinos.…”