Downward Residential Mobility in Structural-Cultural Context

This article pinpoints instances of downward residential mobility among a sample of disadvantaged black mothers and works to elucidate both structurally and culturally related circumstances that help to explain them. In particular, it seeks to connect "residential desires and decision making&qu...

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Published in:Black women, gender & families gender & families, 2008-03, Vol.2 (1), p.25-53
Main Authors: McDonald, Katrina Bell, Richards, Bedelia Nicola
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Case studies
Economic conditions
Economics-Personal
Low income groups
Socioeconomic Factors
Sociology and Anthropology
Women
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Summary:This article pinpoints instances of downward residential mobility among a sample of disadvantaged black mothers and works to elucidate both structurally and culturally related circumstances that help to explain them. In particular, it seeks to connect "residential desires and decision making" to sentiments black women have had historically toward their family and community obligations. This study interweaves quantitative and qualitative data from the Baltimore Study, which traces the movement of disadvantaged black mothers in and out of socioeconomic categories, including in and out of poor neighborhoods over a thirty-year period of their life course (approximately 1968-1996).
ISSN:1935-2743
1944-6462