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Black and Hispanic households tend to live in much poorerneighborhoods than White households with the same income.

Fox, Lindsay (2015) Black and Hispanic households tend to live in much poorerneighborhoods than White households with the same income. USApp– American Politics and Policy Blog (03 Aug 2015). Website.

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Abstract

Despite the success of the Civil Rights movement in mostly eliminating official segregation in the 1960s, racial residential and economic segregation remains a huge problem in the US. In new research, Lindsay Fox and colleagues find that households of different races, but the same income, live in very different neighborhoods. She writes that the typical White household is in a neighborhood with a median income 40 percent higher than that of the typical Black household

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information: © 2015 The Authors, USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: E History America > E151 United States (General)
H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited: 11 Sep 2015 13:57
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 19:48
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/63514

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