Elevated rates of mortality for African Americans compared to whites, coupled with the persistence of high levels of racial residential segregation, have directed attention to the structural manifestations of racism as potentially important pathogens for health. Using national mortality and census data for 1990 and a measure of black social isolation from whites, we examine the association betw...

Racial gaps in homeownership over the past century in the United States have profound implications for black-white gaps in wealth, health, education, and public goods. Closely related to these gaps are patterns of residential sorting on the basis of race. We use new county-level segregation estimates for the period of 1880 to 1940 combined with homeownership data from the federal census to docu...

, Vol. 53, Issue 2, pp. 248–273, ISSN 0037-7791, electronic ISSN 1533-8533. © 2006 by Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, at http://www. ucpress.edu/journals/rights.htm. Does Socioeconomic Status Matter? ...

We examine the role of residential segregation and racial discrimination in determining the entry of movie theaters serving African-American customers in the 1950s. These theaters provided an alternative to the segregated theaters of the Jim Crow era. Consistent with preference externalities in racial and ethnic enclaves, we find that a greater degree of residential segregation leads to more Af...

The causes of the racial/ethnic disparity in preterm birth (PTB) remain largely unknown; traditional risk factors such as smoking and prenatal care fail to account for it. The authors examined whether living in metropolitan areas (MAs) with high levels of residential racial segregation along multiple dimensions (hypersegregation) was associated with higher rates of PTB or larger racial disparit...

We use mobile phone usage data to measure the extent of segregation Syrian refugees in Turkey, and analyze its role their internal mobility patterns. construct a range dissimilarity normalized isolation indices using hourly call volume natives. The richness allows us compute across different provinces over time. Segregation levels show high variation country, with significantly lower higher sha...

While the segmentation of residential areas by race is well known to affect the social and economic well-being of the segregated minority group in the United States, the relationship between segregation and health has received less attention. This study examines the association between racial residential segregation, as measured by the isolation index, and individual weight status in US metropo...

(Please turn to page 18) Florence Wagman Roisman ([email protected]), a former PRRAC Board member, is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law and a Chancellor’s Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Inclusive Communities Project. This essay expresses her personal views. We may hope that the Supreme...

OBJECTIVE We describe patterns of residential crowding among older Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites. We also examine hypotheses about the relationship of residential crowding with assimilation (language and duration of residence) and housing market characteristics. METHODS We employ a multilevel research design, using data from the 2000 U.S. Census of Population. Hierarchical linear models a...

Since the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, researchers and policymakers have paid close attention to trends in school segregation. While Brown focused on black‐white segregation, here we review the evidence regarding trends and consequences of both racial and economic school segregation. In general, the evidence regarding trends in racial segregation suggests that the ...