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Chudacoff, Howard P. – Journal of American History, 1973
Case study focuses on Omaha, Nebraska, between the years of 1880 and 1920, where closer examination of ethnic residential patterns have established that around the turn of the century, clustering of national groups did not exist in degrees as strong as assumptions about the American ghetto'' suggest. (RJ)
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Studies, Ghettos, Housing Discrimination

Rose, Harold M. – Economic Geography, 1972
Focuses on the factors which influence black residential patterns in Boston, Denver, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Seattle; attempts to move a step beyond the traditional demographic projection of changing numbers in time to that of projecting the spatial locus of the population. (RJ)
Descriptors: Black Population Trends, Geographic Concepts, Ghettos, Metropolitan Areas
Harrison, Bennett – 1972
The central purpose of the present study is to examine whether increases in the potential productivity and/or the credential-derived social attractiveness of ghetto workers are translated into higher quality employment. Under the untested assumption that the potential productivity of a worker living in the ghetto is positively correlated with the…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Background, Employment Patterns, Ghettos
The Social Consequences of Residential Segregation of the Urban American Negro. MARC Paper Number 2.
Berger, Stephen D. – 1970
Since Americans tend to live together with people of similar occupation and income, and style of life, neighborhoods tend to be composed of people approximately equal in status. But Americans tend also to group together according to race. Negroes are largely contained in neighborhoods seen as low-status--usually as slums. This residential…
Descriptors: Black Housing, Ghettos, Housing Discrimination, Housing Industry