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Alba, Richard; Silberman, Roxane – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: The educational fate of the children of low-wage immigrants is a salient issue in all the economically developed societies that have received major immigration flows since the 1950s. The article considers the way in which educational systems in the two countries structure the educational experiences and shape the opportunities…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Mexican Americans, Residential Patterns, Educational Attainment
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Farley, Reynolds; Frey, William H. – American Sociological Review, 1994
Evaluates segregation patterns in 1990 and trends in segregation between 1980 and 1990 for 232 U.S. metropolitan areas with substantial black populations. Explanations for differences in metropolitan segregation involve the persistence of past influences maintaining segregation in old metropolitan areas, a high percentage of new housing, and white…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Federal Legislation
Camarillo, Albert – 1984
Comparative analysis of urban history illuminates similar general patterns of occcupation and residence for Blacks and Chicanos from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Distinct Black and Chicano neighborhoods in American cities were the products of "ghettoization" and "barrioization." Ghetto expansion during the early…
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
DENTLER, ROBERT A.; WARSHAUER, MARY ELLEN
ANALYSIS OF THE ETHNIC COMPOSITION AND POPULATION MOVEMENTS OF BUFFALO SHOW THAT IT IS A DEMOGRAPHICALLY DECLINING AND HIGHLY SEGREGATED CITY. FOR ANALYTICAL PURPOSES, THE CITY IS DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR AREAS--(1) AREA I, HIGH PERCENTAGE NEGRO, (2) AREA II, MIXED POPULATION, AND (3) AREA III, HIGH PERCENTAGE WHITE. SINCE SUBURBS AND A HIGH…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Population Trends, Black Teachers, Comparative Analysis