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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 311–328.
Published: 01 August 1976
...Jane Riblett Wilkie Abstract Pre-Civil War black urbanization is examined using data from federal census records, 1790 to 1860. The black population is found to be as urban as the white population initially, but its urbanization underwent relative decline in the last two decades before the Civil...
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Demography (1974) 11 (2): 301–319.
Published: 01 May 1974
...Jack Ericson Eblen Abstract The difficulties of obtaining credible estimates of vital rates for the black population throughout the entire nineteenth century are overcome in this study. The methodology employed the notion of deviating networks of mortality rates for each general mortality level...
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Demography (1974) 11 (4): 715.
Published: 01 November 1974
... States Black Population during the Nineteenth Century, by Jack Ericson Eblen, Demography 11, 2 (May, 1974), pp. 301-319. The numerical labels for both vertical axes of Panel 2, Figure 2 (p. 315) should be multiplied by ten. 715 ...
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 97–123.
Published: 11 September 2012
...John Iceland; Gregory Sharp; Jeffrey M. Timberlake Abstract The goal of this study is to examine the extent to which population shifts over the post–Great Migration period and divergent trends in segregation across regions contributed to the overall decline in black segregation in the United States...
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Demography (1978) 15 (1): 41–56.
Published: 01 February 1978
...Eui-Hang Shin Abstract Using the 1960 and 1970 census data, this paper analyzes the net effects of the interregional migration of black males on the educational levels of the resident black male population at the regions of origin and destination. Significant variations are observed...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 845–868.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of the coethnic population to assess the impact on homeownership inequality of recent trends in population redistribution, particularly the increase in black migration to the South and dramatic dispersal of Hispanics outside traditional areas of settlement. Results indicate remarkable similarity between blacks...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 227–251.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Arline T. Geronimus; John Bound; Timothy A. Waidmann; Cynthia G. Colen; Dianne Steffick Abstract We calculated population-level estimates of mortality, functional health, and active life expectancy for black and white adults living in a diverse set of 23 local areas in 1990, and nationwide. At age...
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 February 1984
...Gretchen A. Condran Abstract The schedule of mortality by age for Philadelphia’s 1880 population classified by sex and race showed aberrations from Coale and Demeny West, South, and North model life tables. Deviations from standard age patterns of mortality were especially pronounced for the black...
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2004
... to have insignificant effects: there was no net shift of the black population toward less-segregated areas, segregation at the metropolitan level did not decline more in areas where the incomes of blacks came closer to the incomes of whites over time, and the emergence of more multiethnic metropolises had...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 443–463.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Stewart E. Tolnay Abstract Total fertility rates and age-specific marital fertility rates are estimated for the urban and rural black populations during the last fourteen years of the nineteenth century. The data source is a 1-in-750 sample of households from the 1900 .census manuscripts...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Lauren J. Krivo; Robert L. Kaufman Abstract We extend research on whites’ neighborhood contact with blacks, population composition, and prospects for desegregation by developing a new measure of the floor of racial residential segregation under conditions of low black-white contact. The measure...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 493–516.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., what this reveals about the emergence of intentional family planning over the course of the demographic transition. We analyze historical populations from 1850 to 1940 in the United States, where early fertility control and large sample sizes allow separate analyses of the White and Black populations...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 281–301.
Published: 01 February 2023
... at the metropolitan scale, driven by racially selective population growth in the suburbs. We also examine major sources of rising segregation, including region, metropolitan total, and Black population sizes, and indicators of redlining in the central cities based on risk maps prepared by the Home Owners Loan...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1263–1292.
Published: 24 August 2011
... composition. Results from hierarchical linear models show that about 20% to 40% of the variation in the percentage of households’ tract population that is non-Hispanic white or non-Hispanic black exists across metropolitan areas. Over time, white households’ exposure to non-Hispanic white neighbors has...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2053–2078.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Shauna Dyer; Giovanni Román-Torres Abstract Black–Latina/o and White–Latina/o bachelor's degree gaps persist in the United States despite substantial increases in Latina/o educational attainment since the late 1950s. The Latina/o population has grown rapidly in recent decades and currently...
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 71–95.
Published: 06 September 2012
... picture of historical internal migration patterns with an analysis of a unique individual retrospective life history data set. This sample of the black population, collected in 2000, is the only known nationally representative life history data for South Africa; it includes all residential moves for each...
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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 (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 (1978) 15 (4): 589–603.
Published: 01 November 1978
..., these metropolitan areas now show spatial differentiation patterns similar to those of the great cities of the Northeast. The white population has increased in ring areas primarily because of in-migration rates; the black population in the central cities has increased primarily because of in-migration rates to those...
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Published: 23 June 2012
Fig. 1 Logged age-specific mortality risk of U.S. black and white male populations across time. Data are from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) ( http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/life_tables.htm ). a Denotes the age at black-white crossover More