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Title: Wall of exclusion: The persistence of residential racial segregation in metropolitan Milwaukee
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2010
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Abstract: Milwaukee was different from other northern industrial communities in that its African American population grew after World War II, much later than other northern industrial communities, who saw their African American populations rise during the first and second Great Migrations, during World War I and its immediate aftermath and World War II, respectively. Milwaukee's African American population did not reach more than 10% of the total population until 1970 and did not become a majority/minority city until 2000. Despite this late growth in the African American population, racial segregation was uncommonly high in metropolitan Milwaukee, both in the city proper and its suburbs. The passage of the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 (FFHA) occurred practically concurrent with the sharpest rise in black population in Milwaukee, but the availability of this potentially potent legal remedy did not seem to have had any impact on African Americans' access to housing in the metropolitan area. Why, then, did Milwaukee's belatedly burgeoning black population confront seemingly insuperable . . .
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Authors: Carman, Greg, J
Institution: The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Department: Urban Studies
Advisor: Seligman, Amanda I.
Degree: PhD
Publisher Location: Milwaukee
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other, Race and Ethnicity
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