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Still Separate, Still Unequal, But Not Always So "Suburban": The Changing Natured Of Suburban School Districts In The New York Metropolitan Area, Allison Roda Ph.D., Amy Stuart Wells, Douglas Ready, Jacquelyn Duran, Courtney Grzesikowski, Kathryn Hill, Miya Warner, Terrenda White Apr 2012

Still Separate, Still Unequal, But Not Always So "Suburban": The Changing Natured Of Suburban School Districts In The New York Metropolitan Area, Allison Roda Ph.D., Amy Stuart Wells, Douglas Ready, Jacquelyn Duran, Courtney Grzesikowski, Kathryn Hill, Miya Warner, Terrenda White

Faculty Works: EDU (1995-2023)

Woven throughout the history of the United States is a narrative of human movement. The story of this country, we argue, is a tale of the constant flow of people across geographic spaces—both voluntary and forced immigrations, migrations, and the settlements of villages, city neighborhoods, and suburban communities. Beginning with Native Americans' ancestors who traversed the Bering Straight, "movement" has been a central, identifying theme of this nation.

The flow of several waves of European immigrants onto colonial shores and across the plains and the haulage of millions of Africans via the slave trade redefined the United States demographically and …