title: Is neighborhood racial succession place-specific?
abstract: This paper evaluates the geographic generality of the succession model of neighborhood racial change for the period 1970 to 1980. Using census data on racially mixed tracts, we determine whether white-to-black compositional shifts were equally common across the four regions and 58 central cities in our sample. Substantial variation occurred by region in the incidence and magnitude of racial succession; tracts in western cities departed most markedly from expectations. Even in other regions, some cities experienced more numerous instances of stability and displacement than of succession. These region and city effects persist when neighborhood characteristics believed to influence racial transition are controlled.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Wood
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D003710:Demography; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011157:Population Dynamics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011287:Prejudice; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People