title: Shifting racial hierarchies: An analysis of residential segregation among multi-racial and mono-racial groups in the United States.
abstract: Multi-racial (mixed-race) people constitute a growing percentage of the United States (US) population. The study reported in this paper used residential segregation measures as a proxy for social distance, to examine whether segregation levels of multi-racial groups differ from those of mono-racial groups in the US in 2010. First, we find that all multi-racial groups considered in the study experience lower levels of segregation at county level than their mono-racial counterparts. However, black-whites and Hispanic-whites experience higher levels of segregation than other multi-racial groups. Second, we find region and minority composition of counties are associated significantly with segregation levels for multi-racial groups, but relative income is not.
authors.affiliation: a University of California.
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.affiliation: a University of California.
authors.forename: Augustine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kposowa
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D019352:Censuses; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006798:Housing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D063505:Racism / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000072699:Social Segregation; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People
keywords: mixed race; mono-racial; multi-racial; racial hierarchy; residential segregation; tri-racial