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Peer reviewedMassey, Douglas S.; Denton, Nancy A. – Demography, 1989
Compares Blacks with Hispanics on five dimensions of segregation--evenness, exposure, clustering, centralization, and concentration--in order to show that Blacks occupy a unique and distinctly disadvantaged position in the U.S. urban environment. Finds that Blacks experience extreme segregation on all dimensions, a pattern called hypersegregation.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Disadvantaged, Hispanic Americans
