Race and Cities
New Circumstances Imply New Ideas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6317440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Hochschild (0000-0001-5979-1562, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 647-658 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592712001661 |
| OpenAlex | W2147499594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
Political scientists rightly reject the claim that demography is destiny; political institutions, practices, and choices intervene. Nevertheless, as demography changes, a locality's politics are likely to change as well, which opens opportunities for new research programs. Three demographic changes warrant new analyses: the decline of non-Hispanic whites in most large cities, the variety of non-Anglo groups and immigrants across cities, and regional variations in the racially-inflected dependency ratio. Each demographic change generates political and scholarly controversies: are cities becoming less segregated? Is black politics a useful template for studying the politics of other groups? Is the dependency ratio more likely to exacerbate or ameliorate group conflict? In lieu of answering these questions, I point to the odd normative valences of conservative and progressive scholarship, and urge attention to the ways in which cities can surprise us
Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · Immigration · Locality · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Scholarship · Sociology · Surprise · Warrant · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Place Matters
Blurring the Color Line
American Dream and Public Schools
The Miner’s Canary
The changing geography of metropolitan opportunity
Bringing Outsiders In
Politics in Black and White
Creating a New Racial Order
The Miner’s Canary
U.S. State and Local Public Policies in 2006
Demographic structure and the political economy of public education
Protest is Not Enough
A Pretext to Panic [with Reply]
Age, Race, Self-Interest, and Financing Public Schools through Referenda
Group Membership, Group Identity, and Group Consciousness
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |