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Title: Residential Attainment of Blacks and Whites in the U.S.: Individual and Contextual Effects

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Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: Extensive research has shown that housing discrimination prevents African Americans from attaining residence in neighborhoods that are commensurate with their social class and status. This study examines two dimensions of the locational attainment process. First, the effects of individual-level socioeconomic characteristics on residential attainment are examined. Second, net of these effects, the impact of contextual metropolitan characteristics are assessed. After controlling for the socioeconomic and assimilation characteristics, large disparities exist in the locational attainment of blacks and whites. Racial segregation contributes heavily to these disparities, as do some other metropolitan characteristics. Disparities remain after controlling for the metropolitan context, but they are attenuated. In fact, after holding these factors statistically constant, it is shown that blacks approach parity, and in some cases actually surpass whites. These findings illustrate the importance of considering both economic and social-structural models in discussions of residential mobility and neighborhood attainment.

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Authors: Stults, Brian J.

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Race and Ethnicity

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