Discrimination, poverty, and ethnic attachment or choice have been identified as 3 factors that might explain residential segregation. This paper purported: (1) to comparatively document the nature and extent of metropolitan segregation of Mexican Americans and Blacks in the Southwest; (2) to perform an exploratory analysis of the significance of…

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the place of residence projections and attainments of selected Louisiana rural youth and to ascertain the nature of racial and sexual differences. More specifically, the objective was to replicate selected residential projections in a study of Texas rural youth and to extend the analysis to subsequent place…

Disparities in rates of mobility among groups in the population have long been of interest as indicators of potential differences in access to economic and social opportunities. Racial differentials in mobility within the United States are seen as evidence of the lack of assimilation of blacks into the American mainstream. This paper tests for a…

Housing has become an increasingly unaffordable commodity for most low income Black and Hispanic households. A comprehensive set of data on housing conditions nationwide was collected by the Bureau of the Census and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as part of the American Housing Survey for 1985. The following key…

This book originated with a concern for a crucial issue in planning; namely, what is the possibility of creating social policies to modify existing patterns of segregation in order to achieve social justice (however defined) in such institutions as housing or schools. Consequently, although this is an academic, ecological analysis of residential…

Composed entirely of statistical tables, this report documents historical change in the residential projections of Northeast Alabama youth. Comparing 1968 data with 1972 data, tabulations are presented by race (black and white), sex, and place of residence (large city, small city, town and village, open country nonfarm and farm) for the following…

The U.S. Bureau of the Census records how much all families and persons in the nation receive. This is done to provide a systematic measure of our economic standing as a people. The bureau makes its record in two ways. First, every 10 years in the census, people are asked how much income they received in the year before Census Day which came on…

A STUDY OF THE NEGRO COMMUNITY OF MILWAUKEE PRESENTS DATA ON RESIDENCE, EDUCATION, HOUSING, OCCUPATIONS AND EMPLOYMENT, THE EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS, AND PROGNOSTICATIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE GROWTH OF NEGRO POPULATION. MOST OF THE AVAILABLE INFORMATION WAS DERIVED FROM THE 1960 CENSUS, WITH COMPARISONS CONTINUALLY MADE TO THE 1950 CENSUS FIGURES. AN…

THIS BOOK IS AN ANALYSIS OF THE ASSIMILATION AND RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION PATTERNS OF TEN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT GROUPS (FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION) IN TEN MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES FROM 1910 TO 1950. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM THE DECENNIAL UNITED STATES CENSUSES. IN EACH CITY GROUPS WERE SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR RELATIVE NUMERICAL IMPORTANCE THEREIN.…