What Is Racial Residential Integration? A Research Synthesis, 1950–2013

Sin, Ray; Krysan, Maria

doi:10.1177/2332649215598159

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“…Our empirical approach is not without limitations. For example, we should not equate evidence of increasing white exposure to minority populations as prima facie evidence of greater social integration, such as interracial neighboring or other forms of social integration (Hewstone 2015;Sin and Krysan 2015). 11 Moreover, following previous studies (Frank and Akresh 2016;South et al 2011), we have modeled residential attainment rather than residential mobility (the movement of whites from more-or less-diverse places).…”

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Together but Apart: Do US Whites Live in Racially Diverse Cities and Neighborhoods?

Lichter¹,

Parisi²,

Taquino³

2017

Population & Development Rev

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Together but Apart: Do US Whites Live in Racially Diverse Cities and Neighborhoods?

Lichter¹,

Parisi²,

Taquino³

2017

Population & Development Rev

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“…However, our use of the Theil Index means our measure of diversity is usually blind to which groups are actually integrating. For example, one key debate in the field surrounds the lagging of black-white integration relative to blacks and other groups (Sin and Krysan 2015). A key study that disentangles these patterns of group co-residence finds that black integration with whites generally happens in areas where other minority groups are already present (Logan and Zhang 2010).…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

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Local Population Change and Variations in Racial Integration in the United States, 2000–2010

Bellman

Spielman

Franklin

2016

International Regional Science Review

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While population growth has been consistently tied to decreasing racial segregation at the metropolitan level in the United States, little work has been done to relate small-scale changes in population size to integration. We address this question through a novel technique that tracks population changes by race and ethnicity for comparable geographies in both 2000 and 2010. Using the Theil Index, we analyze the fifty most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas in 2010 for changes in multigroup segregation. We classify local areas by their net population change between 2000 and 2010 using a novel unit of analysis based on aggregating census blocks. We find strong evidence that growing parts of rapidly growing metropolitan areas of the United States are crucial to understanding regional differences in segregation that have emerged in past decades. Multigroup segregation declined the most in growing parts of growing metropolitan areas. Comparatively, growing parts of shrinking or stagnant metropolitan areas were less diverse and had smaller declines in segregation. We also find that local areas with shrinking populations had disproportionately high minority representation in 2000 before population loss took place. We conclude that the regional context of population growth or decline has important consequences for the residential mixing of racial groups.

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“…Common metrics measuring racial and ethnic residential distributions are problematic for the positive study of integration. Integration has been defined a number of ways, and, in a research synthesis, Sin and Krysan (2015) refer to the study of integration as a "morass of measurement mayhem" (p. 473). The authors identify a tension between two dimensions of integration: 1) the absolute racial and ethnic composition of integration, and 2) how the composition of a place compares to the larger geography in which it is nested.…”

Section: Defining and Identifying Racially Integrated Placesmentioning

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The New Suburb: Multiethnic Racial Residential Integration in the United States

Rastogi¹

2019

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This article examines the relatively widespread trend toward racial residential integration within suburbs in the 21st century across metropolitan areas in the United States. I investigate the racial and ethnic compositions of stably integrated communities as well as the characteristics that distinguish these places. Using the information theory index (H) among stably diverse places, I identify cities and suburbs that were racially integrated between 2000 and 2010. Integrated places cluster in highly diverse, coastal metropolitan areas and almost entirely within suburbs. Moreover, integration is firmly patterned along racial lines. Reflecting the antiblack nature of segregation in the US, the rate of black-white integration remains remarkably low (10.5%), but in multiethnic communities with Asians and Latinxs, the probability of black-white integration nearly quadruples (40.1%). Several critical features of place are positively associated with integration: military and public sector employment as well as public university enrollment; new housing stock; and metropolitan political fragmentation. This study shows that suburbs are at the leading edge of American diversification and integration and illuminates the existence of communities where American society transgresses persistent forms of racial discrimination.

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What Is Racial Residential Integration? A Research Synthesis, 1950–2013

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

Together but Apart: Do US Whites Live in Racially Diverse Cities and Neighborhoods?

Together but Apart: Do US Whites Live in Racially Diverse Cities and Neighborhoods?

Local Population Change and Variations in Racial Integration in the United States, 2000–2010

The New Suburb: Multiethnic Racial Residential Integration in the United States

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