How does race influence the housing choices of Hispanic households who have recently moved? Results of this study demonstrate that white Hispanics are more successful than black Hispanics and other-race Hispanics in gaining access to predominantly Anglo subareas, apparently by virtue of their nonblack status. These findings reveal the individual-level processes underlying aggregate patterns of racial segregation among Hispanics and provide evidence of the influence of social and market forces that isolate not only Anglos from African-Americans and Hispanics but also, increasingly, African-Americans and black Hispanics from all persons of nonblack status.
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