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The Changing Bases of Segregation in the United States

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ID9751655
AuthorsD S Massey (0000-0002-0109-522X, Princeton University, corresponding author), Jonathan Rothwell (0000-0002-9251-0029, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University), Thurston Domina (0000-0003-0161-3215, Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine)
Year2009
Volume626
Issue1
Pages74-90
Publication date2009-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716209343558
PMID24298193
PMCIDPMC3844132
OpenAlexW2107345674
LanguageEN
Citations received183
References cited31

The nature and organization of segregation shifted profoundly in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. During the first two-thirds of the century, segregation was defined by the spatial separation of whites and blacks. What changed over time was the level at which this racial separation occurred, as macro-level segregation between states and counties gave way steadily to micro-level segregation between cities and neighborhoods. During the last third of the twentieth century, the United States moved toward a new regime of residential segregation characterized by moderating racial-ethnic segregation and rising class segregation, yielding a world in which the spatial organization of cities and the location of groups and people within them will increasingly be determined by an interaction of race and class and in which segregation will stem less from overt prejudice and discrimination than from political decisions about land use, such as density zoning

Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term · Race (biology · Sociology · Zoning · Gender Studies · Housing Market and Economics · Law · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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