After more than three decades of fair housing laws, residential segregation is declining, but it remains pervasive. It undermines minority families' search for good jobs, quality schools, health care, and financial success. However, new organizing efforts, tools, and tactics offer hope for greater progress.
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IcelandJohnWeinbergDaniel H.SteinmetzErika. “Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in the United States: 1980–2000.” Census 2000 Special Reports, 2002. Online. http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/resseg/front_toc.html. This study summarizes housing segregation in the year 2000 and trends in segregation since 1980.
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IhlanfeldtKeith R.ScafidiBenjamin. “Whites' Neighborhood Preferences and Neighborhood Racial Composition in the United States: Evidence from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality.”Housing Studies19 (2004): 325–359. The authors demonstrate whites' preference for predominantly white neighborhoods and how that promotes segregation in three metropolitan areas.
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LoganJohn R.StultsBrian J.FarleyReynolds. “Segregation of Minorities in the Metropolis: Two Decades of Change.”Demography41 (2004): 1–22. This study reviews patterns of desegregation since 1980. One critical finding is that black-white segregation did not decline more in areas where income gaps were reduced than in other areas.
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MasseyDouglas S.DentonNancy. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Harvard University Press, 1993). The most thorough and comprehensive account of racial housing segregation in the United States.
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