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The effect of racial residential segregation on black infant mortality.
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Standard intuition suggests that residential segregation in the United States will decline when racial inequality narrows. In this paper, we hypothesize that the opposite will occur. We note that middle-class black neighborhoods are in short supply in many U.S. metropolitan areas, forcing highly educated blacks either to live in predominantly white high-socioeconomic status (SES) neighborhoods ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Contexts
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1536-5042,1537-6052
DOI: 10.1177/1536504219830678