Segregation by race and income in the United States 1970–2010

A systematic analysis of residential segregation and spatial interaction by income reveals that as income rises, minority access to integrated neighborhoods, higher levels of interaction with whites, and more affluent neighbors also increase. However, the income payoffs are much lower for African Am...

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Published in:Social science research 2016-11, Vol.60, p.45-60
Main Authors: Intrator, Jake, Tannen, Jonathan, Massey, Douglas S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Black or African American
Hispanic or Latino
Humans
Income
Low income groups
Metropolitan areas
Minority & ethnic groups
Minority groups
Neighborhoods
Neighbors
Neighbourhoods
Poverty
Race
Racial Groups
Racial segregation
Residence Characteristics
Residential segregation
Segregation
Social integration
Social Segregation
Systematic review
United States
Urban Population
White People
Whites
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Summary:A systematic analysis of residential segregation and spatial interaction by income reveals that as income rises, minority access to integrated neighborhoods, higher levels of interaction with whites, and more affluent neighbors also increase. However, the income payoffs are much lower for African Americans than other groups, especially Asians. Although Hispanics and Asians have always displayed declining levels of minority-white dissimilarity and rising levels of minority-white interaction with rising income, income differentials on these outcomes for blacks did not appear until 1990 and since then have improved at a very slow pace. Given their higher overall levels of segregation and income's limited effect on residential attainment, African Americans experience less integration, more neighborhood poverty at all levels of income compared to other minority groups. The degree of black spatial disadvantage is especially acute in the nation's 21 hypersegregated metropolitan areas.
ISSN:0049-089X
1096-0317
1096-0317
DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.08.003