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Parisi, Domenico; Lichter, Daniel T.; Taquino, Michael C. – Social Forces, 2011
America's changing color line is perhaps best expressed in shifting patterns of neighborhood residential segregation--the geographic separation of races. This research evaluates black exceptionalism by using the universe of U.S. blocks from the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses to provide a "single" geographically inclusive national…
Descriptors: Residential Patterns, Neighborhoods, Racial Segregation, Geographic Location
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South, Scott J.; Deane, Glenn D. – Social Forces, 1993
In 1979-80, residential mobility was lower among African Americans than non-African Americans after adjusting for differences in home ownership and sociodemographic characteristics. Both African-American and non-African-American mobility were influenced by life-cycle factors, housing characteristics, and metropolitan features, but African-American…
Descriptors: Blacks, Individual Characteristics, Metropolitan Areas, Racial Differences
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LeClere, Felicia B.; Rogers, Richard G.; Peters, Kimberley D. – Social Forces, 1997
Low-income neighborhoods with high African American concentrations increased mortality for all residents, but particularly young and middle-aged men; Mexican American neighborhoods conferred a mortality advantage on male residents; women received a mortality advantage in neighborhoods with higher average educational attainment; and individual…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Characteristics, Community Influence, Educational Attainment
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Massey, Douglas S.; Fong, Eric – Social Forces, 1990
Elasticities generated from ecological regressions indicate a Black disadvantage, relative to Hispanics and Asians, in converting education and income into desirable residential outcomes in their neighborhoods. However, differences were less than those found in previous studies and those inferred from levels of segregation. Education was critical…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison
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Downey, Liam – Social Forces, 2005
This article addresses shortcomings in the literature on environmental inequality by (a) setting forth and testing four models of environmental inequality and (b) explicitly linking environmental inequality research to spatial mismatch theory and to the debate on the declining significance of race. The explanatory models ask whether the…
Descriptors: Race, Social Class, Racial Segregation, Residential Patterns