Neighborhood Racial-Composition Preferences: Evidence from a Multiethnic Metropolis

Charles, Camille Z.

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“…However, cohabitation was uncommon in our study (0–1% in Years 7 and 10, 6–7% in Year 15 and 20) and similar by race. Second, social ties to individuals living in higher density areas (Dawkins 2006) or social barriers to moving into lower density areas (Charles 2000) may be stronger in blacks than in whites. Third, compared to family structure, other racially patterned factors such as reliance on public transportation or public services in urban centers may be stronger drivers of residential decisions (Glaeser, Kahn et al 2008).…”

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Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories: The CARDIA study

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Marriage and parenthood are associated with weight gain and residential mobility. Little is known about how obesity-relevant environmental contexts differ according to family structure. We estimated trajectories of neighborhood poverty, population density, and density of fast food restaurants, supermarkets, and commercial and public physical activity facilities for adults from a biracial cohort (CARDIA, n=4,174, aged 25–50) over 13 years (1992–93 through 2005–06) using latent growth curve analysis. We estimated associations of marriage, parenthood, and race with the observed neighborhood trajectories. Married participants tended to live in neighborhoods with lower poverty, population density, and availability of all types of food and physical activity amenities. Parenthood was similarly but less consistently related to neighborhood characteristics. Marriage and parenthood were more strongly related to neighborhood trajectories in whites (versus blacks), who, in prior studies, exhibit weaker associations between neighborhood characteristics and health. Greater understanding of how interactive family and neighborhood environments contribute to healthy living is needed.

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Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories: The CARDIA study

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“…Even if whites do not flee at the mere presence of minorities, they might move for myriad other reasons including marriage, divorce, and job relocation. Inversely, minority families find integrated neighborhoods attractive (Charles 2000;Lewis, Emerson, and Klineberg 2011), and they are likely to fill the vacancies created by departing whites. The result is that minority families move into neighborhoods inhabited by long-term white residents aging in place.…”

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The Fragmented Evolution of Racial Integration since the Civil Rights Movement

Bäder¹,

Warkentien²

2018

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Abstract:We argue that existing studies underestimate the degree to which racial change leads to residential segregation in post-Civil Rights American neighborhoods. This is because previous studies only measure the presence of racial groups in neighborhoods, not the degree of integration among those groups. As a result, those studies do not detect gradual racial succession that ends in racially segregated neighborhoods. We demonstrate how a new approach based on growth mixture models can be used to identify patterns of racial change that distinguish between durable integration and gradual racial succession. We use this approach to identify common trajectories of neighborhood racial change among blacks, whites, Latinos, and Asians from 1970 to 2010 in the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston metropolitan areas. We show that many nominally integrated neighborhoods have experienced gradual succession. For blacks, this succession has caused the gradual concentric diffusion of the ghetto; in contrast, Latino and Asian growth has dispersed throughout both cities and suburbs in the metropolitan areas. Durable integration has come about largely in the suburbs.

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“…Research has consistently found that whites maintain unfavorable out-group views of African Americans, regardless of their economic background, reinforcing residential segregation (Bobo and Zubrinsky, 1996; Charles, 2000; Farley et al, 1994; Krysan et al, 2009; Krysan and Farley, 2002). Similar negative white out-group views have been found to exist towards Hispanics, but not to the same degree for Asians, who themselves prefer not to live in communities with a large African American presence (Bobo and Zubrinsky, 1996).…”

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“…However, existing research on race and class has found that while segregation for middle class minorities has declined, it remains high for blacks (Fischer, 2003; Iceland et al, 2005; Iceland and Wilkes 2006; Massey and Fischer, 1999). The persistence of prejudices and negative out-group preferences (Charles, 2000; Farley et. al, 1994; Krysan and Farley, 2002) as well as discrimination, particularly in the form of racial and ethnic steering, will make minorities more disadvantaged in their residential outcomes, relative to whites, no matter how much the class-status gap is closed between minorities and whites (Massey and Denton, 1993; Massey and Fischer, 1999; Turner et al, 2002).…”

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Declining segregation through the lens of neighborhood quality: Does middle-class and affluent status bring equality?

Friedman

Gibbons

Galvan

2014

Social Science Research

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Middle- and upper-class status along with suburban residence are together considered symbolic of the American dream. However, the question of whether they mean access to better quality residential environments has gone largely unexplored. This study relies on data from the 2009 panel of the American Housing Survey and focuses on a range of neighborhood conditions, including indicators of physical and social disorder as well as housing value and a neighborhood rating. Contrary to the tenets of the spatial assimilation model, we find that middle-class and affluent status do not consistently lead to superior conditions for all households. Neighborhood circumstances vary considerably based on householder race and ethnicity, with blacks and Hispanics experiencing the greatest disparities from whites. In addition, suburban residence does not attenuate such differences, and in some cases, well-to-do minorities do even worse than whites in neighborhood quality in suburbs.

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Neighborhood Racial-Composition Preferences: Evidence from a Multiethnic Metropolis

Cited by 204 publications

References 31 publications

Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories: The CARDIA study

Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories: The CARDIA study

The Fragmented Evolution of Racial Integration since the Civil Rights Movement

Declining segregation through the lens of neighborhood quality: Does middle-class and affluent status bring equality?

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