The Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation.
This article addresses an aspect of racial residential segregation that has been largely ignored in prior work: the issue of geographic scale. In some metropolitan areas, racial groups are segregated over large regions, with predominately white regions, predominately black regions, and so on, wherea...
| Publicado en: | Demography Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 489 - 515 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
August 2008
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