Black access to suburban housing in America’s most racially segregated metropolitan area: Detroit
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Analysis of 2000 census data revealed that blacks in Metropolitan Detroit are the most racially segregated population group in the United States. Blacks in Metropolitan Detroit reside overwhelmingly in central city housing while whites reside overwhelmingly in suburban housing. The objective of this paper is to determine whether the low representation of blacks in suburban housing and the lower socioeconomic status of blacks compared to whites are related to the extremely high level of black-white residential segregation in metropolitan Detroit. This paper has implications for the ecological theory that a racial minority group's level of residential segregation is related to the group's level of socioeconomic status.
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