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Black Visibility, City Size, And Social Control, Pamela Jackson
Black Visibility, City Size, And Social Control, Pamela Jackson
Pamela Irving Jackson
The research reported in this article tests the hypothesis that the relationship between the public fiscal commitment to policing and minority group size is not the same in small cities as it is in large cities. The results of a comparison of all cities in the United States that were greater than 50,000 in population in 1970 with those that were between 25,000-50,000 at that time indicates that the impact of the relative size of the black population on social control efforts differs in both strength and form in the two subpopulations. In large cities percent black has a significant …
Black Visibility, Early Political Victories, And Income Inequality, Pamela Jackson, Gail Marhewka
Black Visibility, Early Political Victories, And Income Inequality, Pamela Jackson, Gail Marhewka
Pamela Irving Jackson
Racial income inequality has long been viewed as an indicator of discrimination against blacks and as reflective of their subordinate group status in the United States. Researchers have tried to isolate the structural, demographic, and geo- graphic catalysts of discrimination and, hence, of racial income inequality in U.S. urban areas. Much attention has been paid to the influence of minority group presence-that is, percent black-on income inequality. The impetus for this attention has been that percent black may be determinant of the threat perceived by the white population and, therefore, of the discrimination initiated against the minority (see Blalock, 1956: …