Nancy A Denton
Biographic Data
| ID | 112970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy A Denton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy A |
| FAMILY NAME | Denton |
| SIGNATURE | DENTON N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1644 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
American Apartheid
Most Americans vaguely realize that urban America is a residentially segregated society, but few appreciate the depth of black segregation or the degree to which it is maintained by ongoing institutional arrangements and contemporary individual actions. Residential segregation lies beyond the ability of any individual to change; it constrains black life chances irrespective of personal traits, individual motivations, or private achievements. Segr…
Measuring Residential Segregation With the ACS
The American Community Survey (ACS) provides valuable, timely population estimates but with increased levels of sampling error. Although the margin of error is included with aggregate estimates, it has not been incorporated into segregation indexes. With the increasing levels of diversity in small and large places throughout the United States comes a need to track accurately and study changes in racial and ethnic segregation between censuses. The…
Race and Real Estate
Race, Space, and Exclusion
Foreword by Nancy A. Denton 1. Racial Exclusion and Spatial Inequality in Metropolitan America by Christopher Mele and Robert M. Adelman Section 1: Racial Exclusion in Policy and Practice 2. Homeownership Expansion, Suburbanization, and Residential Segregation by Greg Mills and Mary J. Fischer 3. Fair Housing and Residential Segregation by Deirdre Oakley 4. The Lifecourse Perspective and Explaining Racial Residential Segregation by Kris Marsh and…
The Role of Immigrant Enclaves for Latino Residential Inequalities
We investigate the difference that immigrant enclaves make for the residential contexts of Latino families in the U.S. We argue that enclaves may no longer function simply as temporary way stations, the classic depiction of them, because of the compromised legal status of many Latinos. We examine this role with an innovative method that uses publicly available census tabulations (from the 2000 Census in our case) to develop HLM models, in which r…
Interpreting U.S. Segregation Trends
Great American Sociology
Let me begin with my conclusion: Rob Sampson has written a great book. It is a mustread for almost all sociologists and demographers, and especially important for urbanists. Though I have written numerous book reviews and read countless others, this essay is by far the hardest one I’ve been asked to do. It is hard for two reasons: first, there is so much excellent material in Great American City to write about that it is hard to know where to beg…
Children in the United States of America
The rights that the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) enumerates include the rights to (1) an adequate standard of living, (2) an education directed toward the development of the child’s fullest potential, (3) the highest attainable standard of health, and (4) the child’s own cultural identity and use of his or her own language. The CRC states that these rights shall be ensured regardless of various statuses of children, including race,…
Researching Race and Ethnicity
Metropolitan Migrants
Les données raciales et ethniques aux États-Unis
The use of ethnic categories in sociology: a critical, coordinated presentation and debate. Ethnic categories have only gradually come to be used in sociology in France, and the process has been punctuated with acrimonious debate due to how remote such categories are from French intellectual tradition. Use of them has nonetheless attained greater scientific legitimacy because of their sociological relevance, while empirical and linguistic elabora…
Young Hispanic Children in the 21st Century
This article presents a demographic portrait of young Hispanic children compared to young non-Hispanic Whites. New results from Census 2000 describe family and economic circumstances of children aged 08, as well as pre-K/nursery school and kindergarten enrollment for the United States, and for the 9 states with the largest number of young Hispanic children (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Te…
Residential Segregation on the Island
In this paper, we use racial data from Census 2000, available for the first time in 50 years, to examine the links among race, socioeconomic status, and residential location on the island of Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly chose white as their race, and they chose only one race, not a combination of races that would seem more in keeping with the ideology of mestizaje. Overall, segregation by race is modest compared with residential segr…
Product Review
Hypersegregation
Hypersegregation occurs when a race/ethnic group is highly segregated in multiple ways, no matter how segregation is conceptualized or measured. It is an explicit recognition of the fact that residential segregation by race is a complex phenomenon that is multidimensional in nature. First used in 1989 in an article by Massey and Denton about patterns of black–white segregation in large US metropolitan areas in 1980, the term now occurs in both th…
The Geography of Opportunity
Urban Inequality
Book Review| April 01 2003 Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities, Alice O’Connor, Chris Tilly and Lawrence D. Bobo. Nancy A. Denton Nancy A. Denton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (3): 129–130. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501342 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nan…
Books in review
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
The Elusive Quest for the Perfect Index of Concentration
In this response we correct an error in our earlier description of the RCO index. We also confirm that the index is not bounded on the negative side as we had previously thought, and we discuss the conditions under which its value goes below −1. We consider defining concentration in terms of density rather than area and systematically compare area- and density-based measures. We conclude that in spite of its methodological imperfections RCO remai…
From Redlining to Reinvestment
Foreword: Community Reinvestment is Good for Cities, Good For Lenders Edward McDonald 1. Community Reinvestment: An Emerging Social Movement Gregory D. Squires 2. The Struggle for Community Investment in Boston, 1989-1991 James T. Campen 3. The Community Reinvestment Act and Neighborhood Revitalization in Pittsburgh John T. Metzger 4. Confrontation, Negotiation, and Collaboration: Detroit's Multibillion- Dollar Deal David Everett 5. Reinvestments…
Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration
This article investigates the shifting racial and ethnic composition of neighborhoods in the Greater New York metropolitan region in the 1970–1990 period, during which the region has been one of the nation's major receiving grounds for new immigrant groups. Neighborhoods are defined in terms of census tracts, and changes in neighborhood composition are tracked with data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses. Four racial/ethnic groups are conside…
Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration
Richard D. Alba, Nancy A. Denton, Shu-yin J. Leung, John R. Logan, Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration: The New York City Region, 1970--1990, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 625-656
"Integrating the "Underclass
Apartheid argues that housing integration has inappropriately disappeared from the national agenda and is critical to remedying the problems of the so-called "underclass."Reviewer Olati Johnson praises the authors' refusal to dichotomize race and class and the roles both play in creating and maintaining housing segregation.However, she argues, Massey and Denton fail to examine critically either the concept of the underclass or the integration ide…
American apartheid
This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated to…
The Dimensions of Residential Segregation
Trends in the Residential Segregation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians
This paper examines trends in residential segregation for blacks Hispanics and Asians in 60 [U.S.] SMSAs between 1970 and 1980 using data taken from the 1970 Fourth Count Summary tapes and the 1980 Summary Tape File 4. Segregation was measured using dissimilarity and exposure indices. Black segregation from Anglos declined in some smaller SMSAs in the south and west but in large urban areas in the northeastern and north central states there was l…
Spatial Assimilation as a Socioeconomic Outcome
Patterns of ethnic and racial segregation in U.S. cities are examined. Specifically the authors replicate earlier analyses of census tract data in selected cities by using individual-level data from the 1970 census. Prior findings were reconfirmed thereby validating the theory of spatial assimilation and reinforcing earlier substantive Results also indicate that to the extent that ecological biases affect the pattern of results errors of substant…
Hypersegregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Residential segregation has traditionally been measured by using the index of dissimilarity and, more recently, the P* exposure index. These indices, however, measure only two of five potential dimensions of segregation and, by themselves, understate the degree of black segregation in U.S. society. Compared with Hispanics, not only are blacks more segregated on any single dimension of residential segregation, they are also likely to be segregated…
Racial Identity Among Caribbean Hispanics
Within the Caribbean region racial identity forms a multicategory continuum from white to black whereas in the US it is a dichotomy of black versus white. Many Caribbean Hispanics therefore reject a strict racial dichotomy and select some category intermediate between black and white when asked to identify themselves racially on the US Census. Using 1970 and 1980 census tract data the authors show that these people display a low degree of segrega…
Suburbanization and Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
This article examines trend in suburganization for blacks, Hispanics, and Asians from 1970 to 1980 in 59 U.S. metropolitan areas and consider the effect of suburbanization on segregation at the latter date. Suburbanization is measured as the proportion of each group residing outside the central city but within the SMSA, and segregation is measured with indices of dissimilarity and exposure. Despite recent increases, blacks remain less suburbanize…
Patterns of neighborhood transition in a multiethnic world
Ethnic diversity within metropolitan neighborhoods increased during the 1970s, and all-white tracts became less common. The simple presence of a minority group did not precipitate turnover, but as the minority proportion rose, the probability of racial and ethnic transition increased. Tracts with multiple groups became much more common during the decade and were especially prone to transition. Distinctively, black neighborhoods displayed a bipola…
The Role of Immigrant Enclaves for Latino Residential Inequalities
We investigate the difference that immigrant enclaves make for the residential contexts of Latino families in the U.S. We argue that enclaves may no longer function simply as temporary way stations, the classic depiction of them, because of the compromised legal status of many Latinos. We examine this role with an innovative method that uses publicly available census tabulations (from the 2000 Census in our case) to develop HLM models, in which r…
The Effect of Residential Segregation on Black Social and Economic Well- Being
Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration
Richard D. Alba, Nancy A. Denton, Shu-yin J. Leung, John R. Logan, Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration: The New York City Region, 1970--1990, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 625-656
Racial identity and the spatial assimilation of Mexicans in the United States
Measuring Residential Segregation With the ACS
The American Community Survey (ACS) provides valuable, timely population estimates but with increased levels of sampling error. Although the margin of error is included with aggregate estimates, it has not been incorporated into segregation indexes. With the increasing levels of diversity in small and large places throughout the United States comes a need to track accurately and study changes in racial and ethnic segregation between censuses. The…
Les données raciales et ethniques aux États-Unis
The use of ethnic categories in sociology: a critical, coordinated presentation and debate. Ethnic categories have only gradually come to be used in sociology in France, and the process has been punctuated with acrimonious debate due to how remote such categories are from French intellectual tradition. Use of them has nonetheless attained greater scientific legitimacy because of their sociological relevance, while empirical and linguistic elabora…
Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration
This article investigates the shifting racial and ethnic composition of neighborhoods in the Greater New York metropolitan region in the 1970–1990 period, during which the region has been one of the nation's major receiving grounds for new immigrant groups. Neighborhoods are defined in terms of census tracts, and changes in neighborhood composition are tracked with data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses. Four racial/ethnic groups are conside…
The Elusive Quest for the Perfect Index of Concentration
In this response we correct an error in our earlier description of the RCO index. We also confirm that the index is not bounded on the negative side as we had previously thought, and we discuss the conditions under which its value goes below −1. We consider defining concentration in terms of density rather than area and systematically compare area- and density-based measures. We conclude that in spite of its methodological imperfections RCO remai…
Residential Segregation on the Island
In this paper, we use racial data from Census 2000, available for the first time in 50 years, to examine the links among race, socioeconomic status, and residential location on the island of Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly chose white as their race, and they chose only one race, not a combination of races that would seem more in keeping with the ideology of mestizaje. Overall, segregation by race is modest compared with residential segr…
Metropolitan Migrants
Young Hispanic Children in the 21st Century
This article presents a demographic portrait of young Hispanic children compared to young non-Hispanic Whites. New results from Census 2000 describe family and economic circumstances of children aged 08, as well as pre-K/nursery school and kindergarten enrollment for the United States, and for the 9 states with the largest number of young Hispanic children (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Te…
Interpreting U.S. Segregation Trends
Great American Sociology
Let me begin with my conclusion: Rob Sampson has written a great book. It is a mustread for almost all sociologists and demographers, and especially important for urbanists. Though I have written numerous book reviews and read countless others, this essay is by far the hardest one I’ve been asked to do. It is hard for two reasons: first, there is so much excellent material in Great American City to write about that it is hard to know where to beg…
American apartheid
This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated to…
Children in the United States of America
The rights that the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) enumerates include the rights to (1) an adequate standard of living, (2) an education directed toward the development of the child’s fullest potential, (3) the highest attainable standard of health, and (4) the child’s own cultural identity and use of his or her own language. The CRC states that these rights shall be ensured regardless of various statuses of children, including race,…
The Geography of Opportunity
"Integrating the "Underclass
Apartheid argues that housing integration has inappropriately disappeared from the national agenda and is critical to remedying the problems of the so-called "underclass."Reviewer Olati Johnson praises the authors' refusal to dichotomize race and class and the roles both play in creating and maintaining housing segregation.However, she argues, Massey and Denton fail to examine critically either the concept of the underclass or the integration ide…
Spatial Assimilation as a Socioeconomic Outcome
Patterns of ethnic and racial segregation in U.S. cities are examined. Specifically the authors replicate earlier analyses of census tract data in selected cities by using individual-level data from the 1970 census. Prior findings were reconfirmed thereby validating the theory of spatial assimilation and reinforcing earlier substantive Results also indicate that to the extent that ecological biases affect the pattern of results errors of substant…
The Effect of Residential Segregation on Black Social and Economic Well-Being
This paper investigates some of the consequences of black residential segregation using specially compiled data for Philadelphia in 1980. Blacks, like whites, attempt to improve their neighborhood characteristics with rising social status, but unlike whites, they face strong barriers to residential mobility. As a result, high status blacks must live in neighborhoods with fewer resources and amenities than whites of similar background. Specificall…
Trends in the Residential Segregation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians
This paper examines trends in residential segregation for blacks Hispanics and Asians in 60 [U.S.] SMSAs between 1970 and 1980 using data taken from the 1970 Fourth Count Summary tapes and the 1980 Summary Tape File 4. Segregation was measured using dissimilarity and exposure indices. Black segregation from Anglos declined in some smaller SMSAs in the south and west but in large urban areas in the northeastern and north central states there was l…
The Effect of Residential Segregation on Black Social and Economic Well- Being
Suburbanization and Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
This article examines trend in suburganization for blacks, Hispanics, and Asians from 1970 to 1980 in 59 U.S. metropolitan areas and consider the effect of suburbanization on segregation at the latter date. Suburbanization is measured as the proportion of each group residing outside the central city but within the SMSA, and segregation is measured with indices of dissimilarity and exposure. Despite recent increases, blacks remain less suburbanize…
The Dimensions of Residential Segregation
Hypersegregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Residential segregation has traditionally been measured by using the index of dissimilarity and, more recently, the P* exposure index. These indices, however, measure only two of five potential dimensions of segregation and, by themselves, understate the degree of black segregation in U.S. society. Compared with Hispanics, not only are blacks more segregated on any single dimension of residential segregation, they are also likely to be segregated…
Racial Identity Among Caribbean Hispanics
Within the Caribbean region racial identity forms a multicategory continuum from white to black whereas in the US it is a dichotomy of black versus white. Many Caribbean Hispanics therefore reject a strict racial dichotomy and select some category intermediate between black and white when asked to identify themselves racially on the US Census. Using 1970 and 1980 census tract data the authors show that these people display a low degree of segrega…
Patterns of neighborhood transition in a multiethnic world
Ethnic diversity within metropolitan neighborhoods increased during the 1970s, and all-white tracts became less common. The simple presence of a minority group did not precipitate turnover, but as the minority proportion rose, the probability of racial and ethnic transition increased. Tracts with multiple groups became much more common during the decade and were especially prone to transition. Distinctively, black neighborhoods displayed a bipola…
Urban Housing Segregation of Minorities in Western Europe and the United States. Elizabeth D. Huttman , Wim Blauw , Juliet Saltman
Racial identity and the spatial assimilation of Mexicans in the United States
American apartheid
This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated to…
Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration
This article investigates the shifting racial and ethnic composition of neighborhoods in the Greater New York metropolitan region in the 1970–1990 period, during which the region has been one of the nation's major receiving grounds for new immigrant groups. Neighborhoods are defined in terms of census tracts, and changes in neighborhood composition are tracked with data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses. Four racial/ethnic groups are conside…
Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration
Richard D. Alba, Nancy A. Denton, Shu-yin J. Leung, John R. Logan, Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration: The New York City Region, 1970--1990, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 625-656
"Integrating the "Underclass
Apartheid argues that housing integration has inappropriately disappeared from the national agenda and is critical to remedying the problems of the so-called "underclass."Reviewer Olati Johnson praises the authors' refusal to dichotomize race and class and the roles both play in creating and maintaining housing segregation.However, she argues, Massey and Denton fail to examine critically either the concept of the underclass or the integration ide…
From Redlining to Reinvestment
Foreword: Community Reinvestment is Good for Cities, Good For Lenders Edward McDonald 1. Community Reinvestment: An Emerging Social Movement Gregory D. Squires 2. The Struggle for Community Investment in Boston, 1989-1991 James T. Campen 3. The Community Reinvestment Act and Neighborhood Revitalization in Pittsburgh John T. Metzger 4. Confrontation, Negotiation, and Collaboration: Detroit's Multibillion- Dollar Deal David Everett 5. Reinvestments…
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
The Elusive Quest for the Perfect Index of Concentration
In this response we correct an error in our earlier description of the RCO index. We also confirm that the index is not bounded on the negative side as we had previously thought, and we discuss the conditions under which its value goes below −1. We consider defining concentration in terms of density rather than area and systematically compare area- and density-based measures. We conclude that in spite of its methodological imperfections RCO remai…
Books in review
Urban Inequality
Book Review| April 01 2003 Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities, Alice O’Connor, Chris Tilly and Lawrence D. Bobo. Nancy A. Denton Nancy A. Denton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (3): 129–130. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501342 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nan…
Young Hispanic Children in the 21st Century
This article presents a demographic portrait of young Hispanic children compared to young non-Hispanic Whites. New results from Census 2000 describe family and economic circumstances of children aged 08, as well as pre-K/nursery school and kindergarten enrollment for the United States, and for the 9 states with the largest number of young Hispanic children (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Te…
Residential Segregation on the Island
In this paper, we use racial data from Census 2000, available for the first time in 50 years, to examine the links among race, socioeconomic status, and residential location on the island of Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly chose white as their race, and they chose only one race, not a combination of races that would seem more in keeping with the ideology of mestizaje. Overall, segregation by race is modest compared with residential segr…
Product Review
Hypersegregation
Hypersegregation occurs when a race/ethnic group is highly segregated in multiple ways, no matter how segregation is conceptualized or measured. It is an explicit recognition of the fact that residential segregation by race is a complex phenomenon that is multidimensional in nature. First used in 1989 in an article by Massey and Denton about patterns of black–white segregation in large US metropolitan areas in 1980, the term now occurs in both th…
The Geography of Opportunity
Sociology (32 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (23 works) · Geography (22 works) · Political science (18 works) · Economics (16 works) · Demography (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Demography (11 works) · Metropolitan area (10 works)