Shifting Geographies: Examining the Role of Suburbanization in Blacks' Declining Segregation Export

@article{citeulike:2350309, abstract = {This article explores the relationship between Black shifts to the suburbs and metropolitan segregation using the decompositional properties of the entropy index. This method reveals that much of the decline in metropolitan segregation of Blacks from others is because of declining central city segregation; suburban segregation has much lower average declines. Furthermore, a growing proportion of Black/other segregation is explained by residential distributions within the suburbs. Uneven distributions of Blacks across city lines account for nearly a third of Black/other segregation in the Midwest and Northeast in 2000. In the West, within-suburban sorting is by far the most important component of metropolitan segregation of Blacks from others, while in the South, within-city sorting and within-suburb sorting are relatively equal in importance. 10.1177/1078087407305499}, author = {Fischer, Mary J.}, citeulike-article-id = {2350309}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087407305499}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/4/475}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1078087407305499}, journal = {Urban Affairs Review}, keywords = {african, americans, analysis, entropy, index, racial, segregation, spatial, suburbs}, month = {March}, number = {4}, pages = {475--496}, posted-at = {2008-02-07 20:41:36}, priority = {3}, title = {Shifting Geographies: Examining the Role of Suburbanization in Blacks' Declining Segregation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087407305499}, volume = {43}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2350309 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2350309 N2 - This article explores the relationship between Black shifts to the suburbs and metropolitan segregation using the decompositional properties of the entropy index. This method reveals that much of the decline in metropolitan segregation of Blacks from others is because of declining central city segregation; suburban segregation has much lower average declines. Furthermore, a growing proportion of Black/other segregation is explained by residential distributions within the suburbs. Uneven distributions of Blacks across city lines account for nearly a third of Black/other segregation in the Midwest and Northeast in 2000. In the West, within-suburban sorting is by far the most important component of metropolitan segregation of Blacks from others, while in the South, within-city sorting and within-suburb sorting are relatively equal in importance. 10.1177/1078087407305499 IS - 4 JF - Urban Affairs Review EP - 496 TI - Shifting Geographies: Examining the Role of Suburbanization in Blacks' Declining Segregation VL - 43 SP - 475 KW - african KW - americans KW - analysis KW - entropy KW - index KW - racial KW - segregation KW - spatial KW - suburbs AU - Fischer, Mary PY - 2008/03/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087407305499 ER -