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Assumptions And Limitations Of The Census Bureau Methodology Ranking Racial And Ethnic Residential Segregation In Cities And Metro Areas, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This paper responds to a request from the U.S. Census Bureau to serve on a five-member peer review panel to examine an historic and first-time study by the Census Bureau that ranked major metropolitan areas by their level of racial and ethnic housing segregation and offered segregation rankings of 1,092 cities and 331 metropolitan areas based on a series of indexes discussed in the sociological literature. The paper identifies assumptions and limitations of the indexes and the five-index rankings used by the Census Bureau in its report on “Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in the United States: 1980-2000” (CENSR-3) and …
Racial Integration In Urban America: A Block Level Analysis Of African American And White Housing Patterns, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
Racial Integration In Urban America: A Block Level Analysis Of African American And White Housing Patterns, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
This block level analysis raises serious questions about the white-black housing dissimilarity segregation index historically used to rank the racial segregation of metropolitan areas. The analysis examines the assumptions of the dissimilarity index about the lack of integration occurring in many cities with large African American populations. No single statistic or set of statistics can capture the complex population mix and levels of integration and segregation in urban America, and the current segregation rankings of cities and metropolitan areas, while popular in the media, appear to offer little insight into the configuration of neighborhoods in cities with large African American …
Maps Of African American And White Populations In 100 Metro Areas, John Pawasarat
Maps Of African American And White Populations In 100 Metro Areas, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
The Employment and Training Institute prepared maps for the 100 largest metro areas in the U.S. to aid public policy makers in identifying black-white integrated neighborhoods. The mapping project analyzed block level data, with cities encouraged to map their integrated neighborhoods by blocks. For ease of display, the metro maps shown here use block groups to aid communities in assessing the location and relative size of their racial mixes. Four maps are provided for each metro area. The first map shows the black-white racial composition by three categories: integrated block groups with at least 20 percent black population and at …