NATIONAL ESTIMATES OF RACIAL SEGREGATION IN RURAL AND SMALL-TOWN AMERICA*

Demography;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......first time, comparative estimates of racial residential segregation of blacks, Hispanics...in previous metropolitan studies. Racial residential segregation in rural places increases...formula omitted.) Most studies of racial residential segregation have been devoted to...

THE GEOGRAPHIC SCALE OF METROPOLITAN RACIAL SEGREGATION*

Demography;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...This article addresses an aspect of racial residential segregation that has been largely...denotes formulae omitted.) The study of racial residential segregation is driven by three primary...investigating the geographic scale of racial residential patterns. Specifically, we examine...

HOPING FOR ACTION

Post-Tribune (IN);  November 14, 1989 ;     66 words ......Post-Tribune for the really stupendous series on "A Region Divided." Your broad coverage of all the effects of the racial residential segregation that besets this region hopefully will motivate more people to do something about it. Lotte...

Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the...

Social Forces;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......development, have contributed to racial residential segregation. Bonastia provides the...housing desegregation have had on racial residential segregation? While it seems unlikely...would have fundamentally altered racial residential segregation, Bonastia makes a reasonable...

Sect. 8 policy raises discrimination charge

Bay State Banner;  February 3, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Massachusetts responded by instituting residential preferences, giving residents first pick at...impossible without. As in Dracut, residential preferences all but assured that non-residents...barring the authorities from using residential preferences, an attorney representing the...

Whites who say they'd flee: Who are they, and why would they leave?

Demography;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......attitudes toward white flight-and whites' residential preferences more generally-has relevance to our understanding of contemporary racial attitudes and residential preferences, as well as significant policy implications...sure, this process is not the only cause of racial ...

The residential preferences of blacks: Do they explain persistent...

Social Forces;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......THE CURRENT CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE CAUSES OF PERSISTENT RACIAL RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION Since the Taeubers (1965) published their...American preferences are incompatible with declines in racial residential segregation. Our data do not allow us to quantify the...

Continuities in size of place preferences in the United States, 1972-1992

Rural Sociology;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......location of opportunities and residential preferences that are tied more closely to...that shifts in the direction of residential preferences during 1972-1992 tend to coincide...thought to be associated with residential preferences that are based on amenity and...

Urban labor markets and individual transitions out of poverty

Demography;  August 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......I) economic restructuring, (2) skills mismatches, (3) racial residential segregation, and (4) welfare benefit levels. Results show...persisting skills mismatches, (3) evolving patterns of racial residential segregation, and (4) changing welfare benefit levels...

How low can it go? Declining black-white segregation in a multiethnic...

Demography;  February 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......desegregation by developing a new measure of the floor of racial residential segregation under conditions of low black-white contact...Weinberg 1992; Massey and Denton 1987). Declining levels of racial residential segregation coupled with survey evidence that most whites...

Homeowners' interior upgrades lean toward big, with a dashof bling

Naperville Sun, The (IL);  April 23, 2008 ;     592 words ......hot tubs? Rec rooms? Those things may have gone the way of the sitting room, but only to be replaced by more current residential preferences. In Naperville, those in the business say homeowners and buyers these days are looking for ambiance and elbow room...

West Virginia's Lost Youth: Appalachian Stereotypes and Residential...

The Journal of Geography;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......uses a cognitive mapping survey to examine the effect of Appalachian stereotypes on West Virginia high school students' residential preferences. The research addresses the popularly held hypothesis that West Virginia is suffering out-migration of its young people...

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND RACIAL RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION: BLACKS AND...

International Journal of Comparative Sociology;  November 1, 2000 ;     123 words ...Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A. International Journal of Comparative Sociology Vol.28 (1987) pp. 1-13 The objective of this paper is to determine whether residential segregation between blacks and whites and Hispanics and whites declines once socioeconomic status differences are

Baboons and humans share residential preferences.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  September 22, 2008 ;     430 words ...BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING THE first results of the radio-collared baboon project on the Cape Peninsula show that the primates spend 80% of their time foraging in the wild and only 20% in urban areas - far less than researchers had thought. Results also show that the baboons prefer the lower-lying

Racial differences in spatial job search patterns: Exploring the causes...

Economic Geography;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......mean employment growth in areas searched) is explained by racial residential segregation. In addition, racial segregation is a more...spatial mismatch in urban labor markets and imply that racial residential segregation limits the job opportunities of blacks, and...