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Aaron Scholl – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation centers on research at the intersection of labor, public, and urban economics. Chapter 1 details the role, process, and history of census tract delineation prior to each Decennial Census, and investigates short- and long-run implications of neighborhoods that receive further delineation, or become "split". Using a…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Racial Distribution, Race, Residential Patterns
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Mordechay, Kfir; Ayscue, Jenn – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
Race and class inequality have long governed patterns of residential and school segregation across America. However, as neighborhoods across the country gentrify, new questions arise as to whether or not these demographic shifts in neighborhoods correspond with school-level demographic changes. This study examines New York City's most rapidly…
Descriptors: Residential Patterns, Disadvantaged, Social Class, Urban Renewal
Sara Srygley; Nurfadila Khairunnisa; Diana Elliott – Appalachian Regional Commission, 2024
This chartbook is the 14th version to be produced for the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB). The Chartbook describes the diversity of the Appalachian Region on a host of demographic and economic measures and provides an important annual view of the area and its people. The data contained in the…
Descriptors: Demography, Geographic Location, Community Surveys, Data Analysis
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Dache-Gerbino, Amalia – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2018
In an effort to challenge the dominant discourses of college access and highlight nondominant discourses of college access such as geographic racism and segregation, I employ a Critical Geographic College Access (CGCA) framework. This framework consists of critical geographic theories such as power-geometry and spatial mismatch. Using Geographic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Racial Segregation, Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Ability
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Lash, Cristina L.; Sanchez, Monika – Education and Urban Society, 2019
Nationwide, place-based initiatives aiming to improve school and community outcomes are in the midst of neighborhood demographic change. We explore this issue through a case study of the Mission Promise Neighborhood (MPN). We discuss how the social and educational context of MPN poses several challenges to implementing Promise Neighborhood…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Working Class, Advantaged, Whites
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Frankenberg, Erica – Education and Urban Society, 2013
Inaction to address housing segregation in metropolitan areas has resulted in persistently high levels of residential segregation. As the Supreme Court has recently limited school districts' voluntary integration efforts, this article considers the role of residential segregation in maintaining racially isolated schools, namely what is known about…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Neighborhood Integration, Residential Patterns, Metropolitan Areas
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Foulkes, Matt; Schafft, Kai A. – Rural Sociology, 2010
Poverty is frequently conceptualized as an attribute of either people or places. Yet residential movement of poor people can redistribute poverty across places, affecting and reshaping the spatial concentration of economic disadvantage. In this article, we utilize 1995 to 2000 county-to-county migration data from the 2000 United States decennial…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Residential Patterns, Rural Areas, Counties
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Goldsmith, Pat Rubio – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background: Despite a powerful civil rights movement and legislation barring discrimination in housing markets, residential neighborhoods remain racially segregated. Purpose: This study examines the extent to which neighborhoods' racial composition is inherited across generations and the extent to which high schools' and colleges' racial…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Racial Segregation, Residential Patterns, Racial Composition
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DeFina, Robert; Hannon, Lance – Social Forces, 2009
Previous studies have shown that as the percent black or percent Hispanic grows, that group's residential segregation from whites tends to increase as well. Typically, these findings are explained in terms of white discriminatory reaction to the perceived threat associated with minority population growth. The present analysis examines whether…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Residential Patterns, Population Growth, Ghettos
White, Michael J.; Glick, Jennifer E. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2009
Can the recent influx of immigrants successfully enter the mainstream of American life, or will many of them fail to thrive and become part of a permanent underclass? "Achieving Anew" examines immigrant life in school, at work, and in communities and demonstrates that recent immigrants and their children do make substantial progress over time,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Neighborhoods, Ethnicity, Race
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Ellis, Mark; Wright, Richard – International Migration Review, 1998
Compares characteristics of recent immigrant arrivals in the United States using two measures from the U.S. Census, the "came-to-stay" question and the migrant question. Results suggest that immigration researchers should consider the idea of arrival carefully to distinguish between newcomers and the resident foreign born. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Census Figures, Immigrants, Immigration
New York City Dept. of City Planning, NY. – 1982
The tabular data in this report on New York City's Puerto Rican population and households comes from the 1980 Census. It is noted that all data in the report must be considered preliminary pending the final outcome of litigation over a possible population undercount. Population information is provided by age, sex, and marital status. Household…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Demography, Family (Sociological Unit), Housing
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U. S. Burea of the Census Ch – Integrated Education, 1983
Presents statistics, broken down by race and ethnic origin, on home ownership, housing costs, mortgage holders, and rent in the United States. (KH)
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Hispanic Americans, Homeowners
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Farley, John E. – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1991
Examines changes in patterns of Black-White housing segregation in St. Louis (Missouri) between 1980 and 1988 using data from the 1988 Dress Rehearsal Census. St. Louis exhibited a persistent pattern of segregation from 1940 to 1980. Finds the city remains quite segregated compared to 1980 national averages. (DM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Housing, Racial Segregation
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Smock, Pamela J.; Manning, Wendy D. – Journal of Family Issues, 1997
Explores ramifications of simplifying the complexity of children's living arrangements. Drawing on 1990 census data, shows that over two-fifths of children in single-mother families actually lived in households with other adults present. Claims that inaccurate assessments of household living arrangements masks the extent of a race-ethnic gap in…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Family Structure, Mothers, One Parent Family
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