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Title: Metropolises of the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality: Social, Economic, Demographic, and Racial Issues in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles

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Publication Year: 2003

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Abstract: The Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality investigated racial differences in social and economic status in four of the nation's largest metropolises in the 1990s. This study sought to answer questions about why African Americans remain disadvantaged on almost all economic indicators thirty years after the civil rights revolution altered not only the nation's laws but its values about the legitimacy of racial discrimination. Another important aim of this study was to describe the racial and economic change now occurring in major ports of entry as many Latinos and Asians migrate to the United States. This chapter provides an overview of the Multi-City Study sites, focusing on the social, economic, and demographic differences that distinguish the racial groups.

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Authors: Farley, Reynolds

Editors: Alice O'Connor, Chris Tilly Lawrence Bobo

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Volume Title: Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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