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Title: Integration and segregation across the rural-urban continuum
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: The history of legal segregation, from Jim Crow to discriminatory lending practices, fundamentally shapes the racial residential structure of the United States (Rothstein 2017). Fiftyyears after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, metropolitan areas across the nation display durable patterns of racial segregation (Logan and Stults 2011). However, this attention to metropolitan segregation neglects the structure of residential patterns at different spatial scales and the possibility of integration in more local contexts. Analyzing central cities, suburbs, exurbs, and nonmetropolitan places separately may offer new insights regarding the geography of race relations and may help inform policy for the maintenance of integration. New forms of settlement stemming from “new destination” communities (e.g., Riosmena and Massey 2012) and the continual expansion of urban spaces (Lichter and Ziliak 2017) may offer new opportunities for integration. While a third of immigrants still live in traditional gateways like New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, much of the remainder has dispersed throughout the Midwest and South (Frey 2015). Native-born black migrants also show settlement in nonmetropolitan areas (Frey 2015). In the 21st century, the “chocolate city/vanilla suburbs” dichotomy no longer exists—as of 2010, most metropolitan people of color (Frey 2015) and immigrants (Singer 2011) live in the suburbs. The class composition of suburbs varies widely and the majority of poor metropolitan people live in the suburbs (Kneebone and Berube 2014). These changing dynamics allow for new possibilities for integration at a spatial scale no longer centered on the metropolitan area...
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Authors: Rastogi, Ankit; Curtis, Katherine J.
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Topics: Race and Ethnicity
Countries: United States