Racial prisms: experimental evidence on families' race-based evaluations of school safety.
Racial segregation is an enduring social reality in the United States. Since safety is central to residential and educational decisions, one explanation is, when choosing neighborhoods and schools, individuals use racial composition to signal safety. However, few studies have focused on race-based p...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 104; no. 1; pp. 177 - 202 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2025
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