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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 185–193.
Published: 01 May 1970
...Ozzle L. Edwards Abstract The residential segregation of families by income and by stage of the family life cycle within Milwaukee’s black community resembles in both pattern and degree that in the white community. The greater the difference in income, the more dissimilar are the distributions...
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 571–590.
Published: 01 November 1973
...Robert G. Weisbord Abstract During the 1960’s and continuing into the 1970’s, the charge that birth control and abortion are integral elements of a white genocidal conspiracy directed against Afro-Americans has been heard with increasing frequency and stridency in black communities. The genocide...
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 259–270.
Published: 01 May 1984
...Moshe Semyonov; Danny R. Hoyt; Richard I. Scott Abstract A large body of literature investigating the link between black percentage in the community and occupational differentiation, has found disparities to be greater in places where blacks are in a higher proportion. The present paper discusses...
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 497–518.
Published: 01 November 1977
... rings. Racial residential segregation was much greater than the segregation of social classes within either the black or white communities. The extent of racial residential segregation does not vary by educational attainment, occupation, or income. 16 1 2011 © Population Association...
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Demography (1998) 35 (1): 23–34.
Published: 01 February 1998
... areal variations in infant and working-age mortality, but especially working-age mortality for the black population. For black men, the mortality consequences of living in economically distressed communities are quite severe. Segregation effects on mortality are more modest and largely operate through...
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 97–123.
Published: 11 September 2012
... in recent decades. Using data from the 1970 to 2000 decennial censuses and the 2005–2009 American Community Survey (ACS), our analysis indicates that black dissimilarity and isolation declined more in the South and West than in the Northeast and Midwest. Nevertheless, regional population shifts account...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2053–2078.
Published: 01 December 2022
... comprises more than 20% of the U.S. population; however, barriers to citizenship have grown in tandem and have limited access to higher education. Using data from the U.S. Census (1950–2010) and the American Community Survey (2015–2017), we examine trends in Black–Latina/o and White–Latina/o college...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 421–434.
Published: 01 November 1998
..., however, was received by blacks with consid- erable suspicion. If the program was denounced by influen- tial members of the community or was not accepted by people of the area in general, an accessible or strong pro- gram may have had little effect. Conversely, some commu- nities may have assuaged...
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Selection, Language Heritage, and the Earnings Trajectories of Black Immigrants in the United States
Demography (2014) 51 (3): 975–1002.
Published: 23 May 2014
...Tod G. Hamilton Abstract Research suggests that immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean surpass the earnings of U.S.-born blacks approximately one decade after arriving in the United States. Using data from the 1980–2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005–2007 American Community Surveys on U.S.-born...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2169–2191.
Published: 11 November 2019
... the American Community Survey from 2012 to 2016 to assess trajectories for black-white disparities in educational attainment, employment, and neighborhood poverty between metropolitan areas with hypersegregation and black-white segregation, as measured by the dissimilarity index. Using a time-varying measure...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 243–268.
Published: 01 May 1993
.... With an analytic focus derived from these two theoretical models, we examine the relationship between community resources and various sorts of human capital characteristics for four major racial and ethnic groups: whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians. Our analysis specifically investigates residential location...
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Muslim–Non-Muslim Locational Attainment in Philadelphia: A New Fault Line in Residential Inequality?
Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1327–1348.
Published: 25 June 2019
.... These data contain respondents’ religious identities and are geocoded at the census-tract level, allowing us to merge American Community Survey data and examine neighborhood-level outcomes to gauge respondents’ locational attainment. Net of controls, our multivariate analyses reveal that among blacks...
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 661–678.
Published: 01 November 1989
..., in a probability sample of noninstitutionalized elderly men and women in an urban community, how a broad range of health conditions, behavioral and biomedical risk factors, and aspects of functional and cognitive states cluster together. Our sample, composed of blacks and whites, provides an opportunity to examine...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 443–453.
Published: 01 November 1996
... that of comparable whites. This result is due partly to the negative impact of homeownership for blacks: In nine of 11 suburban regions studied, black homeowners live in suburbs with lower exposure to whites. Findings are similar for the income level, a clearer indi- cator of community quality, in suburbs where...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1203–1229.
Published: 25 June 2011
... undesirability in black and white: Examining racial residential preferences through community perceptions . Social Problems , 49 , 521 – 543 . 10.1525/sp.2002.49.4.521 Krysan M. ( 2002 ). Whites who say they’d flee: Who are they and why would they leave? . Demography , 39 , 675 – 696...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2193–2227.
Published: 11 November 2019
... heterogeneity despite large racial/ethnic differences in these characteristics nationally. This trend does not apply to all forms of ethnoracial diversity equally: Hispanic and especially Asian population growth is more likely to generate community sociodemographic and economic heterogeneity than is black...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 999–1021.
Published: 03 April 2019
... income inequality. The groups with the highest incomes—whites and Asians—also have the highest levels of within-group inequality and the lowest levels of within-group mobility. The reverse is true for the lowest-income groups: blacks, American Indians, and Hispanics have lower within-group inequality...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 189–213.
Published: 21 December 2015
... communities in New York and Los Angeles . American Sociological Review , 67 , 299 – 322 . 10.2307/3088897 Massey , D. S. , & Denton , N. M. ( 1987 ). Trends in the residential segregation of blacks, Hispanics, and Asians: 1970–1980 . American Sociological Review , 52 , 802 – 825...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 267–289.
Published: 23 November 2011
... with disabilities are more likely to reside there, particularly at institutional GQ, reflecting their relatively high incarceration rate; (4) individuals with and without disabilities who are black, American Indian, were never married, or have less than a high school education have higher GQ residence rates; (5) 40...
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 37–59.
Published: 01 February 2004
... in different neighborhoods, communities, metropolitan areas, or regions. Substantively, we found that the segregation of blacks decreased considerably after 1960 largely because neighborhoods became more integrated, but the foreign born became more segregated largely because they concentrated in particular...
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