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Racial Segregation and Class in a Liberal Metropolis
Author(s) -
Morrill Richard
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
geographical analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1538-4632
pISSN - 0016-7363
DOI - 10.1111/j.1538-4632.1995.tb00334.x
Subject(s) - race (biology) , class (philosophy) , social class , demographic economics , gender studies , sociology , political science , economics , law , epistemology , philosophy
As overt racial discrimination lessens and the social and economic status of minorities rises, segregation by class should become more and segregation by race less prominent. This hypothesis is tested via several structural and spatial measures of segregation, for class and for race separately and simultaneously. Even in the ostensibly liberal Seattle, race is found to remain vastly stronger than class for blacks, and even somewhat stronger for Asians.