How low can it go? Declining black-white segregation in a multiethnic context.
We extend research on whites' neighborhood contact with blacks, population composition, and prospects for desegregation by developing a new measure of the floor of racial residential segregation under conditions of low black-white contact. The measure incorporates the way in which multiethnic contexts further constrain levels of black-white segregation. The results show that black-white desegregation is likely when the black population is small, but is unlikely otherwise. Yet, when multiple ethnic groups are sufficiently large, a moderate level of black-white segregation is necessary for whites to maintain low neighborhood contact with blacks, even when the proportion of African Americans is small.
Department of Sociology, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA. krivo.1@osu.edu
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D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006798:Housing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D016018:Least-Squares Analysis; D011157:Population Dynamics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011287:Prejudice; D011822:Race Relations / Q000523:psychology* / Q000639:trends*; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*