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Rosenberg, Terry J. – 1974
This study relates the residential segregation or ghettoization of the Puerto Rican population in New York City to the employment opportunities, mobility and assimilation of the minority. Both ecological and individual level approaches are utilized to investigate three basic questions: (1) What are the mechanisms of the influence of ghetto…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Census Figures, Employment Opportunities, Family Mobility
Peer reviewedMassey, Douglas S.; Hajnal, Zoltan L. – Social Science Quarterly, 1995
Measures black segregation at four geographic levels: state, county, city, and neighborhood, from 1900 to 1990. Cross-references data from the decennial U.S. census with dissimilarity and isolation indices. Concludes that segregation patterns have consistently evolved to minimize white contact with blacks. (MJP)
Descriptors: Apartheid, Blacks, Census Figures, Demography
Peer reviewedFarley, Reynolds – Challenge: A Journal of Research on African American Men, 1994
Traces the development of black-white residential segregation in U.S. cities, and applies the views of Gunnar Myrdal, expressed in the 1940s, to housing trends in the 1980s. While such segregation has decreased, blacks remain more segregated than two other large minority groups (i.e., Hispanics and Asians). Forces influencing residential…
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Housing Discrimination, Racial Balance
