Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic ScalesAmerican Sociological Review - Tập 73 Số 5 - Trang 766-791 - 2008
Barrett A. Lee, Sean F. Reardon, Glenn Firebaugh, Chad R. Farrell, Stephen A. Matthews, David O’Sullivan
The census tract—based residential segregation literature rests on problematic assumptions about geographic scale and proximity. We pursue a new tract-free approach that combines explicitly spatial concepts and methods to examine racial segregation across egocentric local environments of varying size. Using 2000 Census data for the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, we compute a spatial...... hiện toàn bộ
Segregation and Poverty ConcentrationAmerican Sociological Review - Tập 77 Số 3 - Trang 354-379 - 2012
Lincoln Quillian
A key argument of Massey and Denton’s (1993) American Apartheid is that racial residential segregation and non-white group poverty rates combine interactively to produce spatially concentrated poverty. Despite a compelling theoretical rationale, empirical tests of this proposition have been negative or mixed. This article develops a formal decomposition model that expands Massey’s model o...... hiện toàn bộ