Black and White Upper-Middle-Class Suburban Selection

A Causal Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID9213747
AuthorsHarvey Marshall (Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume25
Issue1
Pages27-57
Publication date1982-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Pacific Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-8919 • E-ISSN: 2330-0736
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/1388886
OpenAlexW2800047089
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

In this study the conditions are compared under which black and white upper-middle-class male inmigrants to large metropolitan areas between 1965 and 1970 chose the suburbs. Models of this aspect of the suburbanization process are evaluated for upper-middle-class members of each racial group. White suburbanization was led by the middle class, which responded primarily to the location of new housing, and an attempt is made to determine the extent to which this was true for blacks. Since almost no previous research has dealt with the determinants of suburbanization by socioeconomic status, either black or white, this analysis provides a more detailed understanding of the nature of the process. The units of analysis are metropolitan areas with 1970 total populations of 500,000 or greater, with moderately large central-city black populations

Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Metropolitan area · Middle class · Political science · Population · Race (biology) · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Suburbanization · Upper class · White (mutation) · Demography · Gender Studies · Housing Market and Economics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Urbanization and City Planning

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