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Title: Visualizing Birmingham segregation patterns using census tract data and spatialized segregation indices

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: This poster illustrates the spatial diffusion of whites from the city center of Birmingham, Alabama, following the Civil Rights Movement using census data from 1960 through 2010. Spatializing race data by averaging a tracts adjacent polygon values allows us to visualize two segregation indicesthe Dissimilarity Index (Di) and the Exposure Index (Si*)at the census tract level, while minimizing the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP). The resultant maps are paired and critiqued alongside county-wide segregation index values, revealing the limitations of lumped calculation alone in understanding changes in patterns of segregation over time. This modified approach visualizes the trajectory underlying the shift from de jure to de facto segregation in Birmingham in an effort to reveal how the dominant habitus initiated a spatial reconfiguration minimizing white exposure to the challenges to habitus intended by de jure desegregation.

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Authors: Munsey, G.; Henson, Z.

Conference Name: Annual meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers

Publisher Location: San Francisco, CA

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Housing and Segregation

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