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Title: Measuring Segregation Patterns and Change: a CoLocation Quotient Approach

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: The residential segregation can be defined as the degree to which two or more population groups reside in separate neighborhoods within the urban setting. The residential segregation studied in this dissertation considers the locational split of population based on racial characteristics. In the United States, a special role is given to the segregation pattern of blacks as a consequence of the historic treatment of African-Americans. The abolition of slavery was legally transferred to segregation laws that posed unequal access of blacks to public goods and services (Frazier and Margai, 2003). After segregation laws and any kind of racial and ethnic discrimination were finally prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the phenomenon of segregation persisted in the American society for decades to come.

Url: http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7330&context=dissertations

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Authors: Vorotyntseva, Natalia

Institution: University of Connecticut

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Publisher Location: Storrs, CT

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Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Methodology and Data Collection, Other

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