Synopses & Reviews
This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.
American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and governmental policies. In some urban areas the degree of black segregation is so intense and occurs in so many dimensions simultaneously that it amounts to "hypersegregation."
The authors demonstrate that this systematic segregation of African Americans leads inexorably to the creation of underclass communities during periods of economic downturn. Under conditions of extreme segregation, any increase in the overall rate of black poverty yields a marked increase in the geographic concentration of indigence and the deterioration of social and economic conditions in black communities. As ghetto residents adapt to this increasingly harsh environment under a climate of racial isolation, they evolve attitudes, behaviors, and practices that further marginalize their neighborhoods and undermine their chances of success in mainstream American society. This book is a sober challenge to those who argue that race is of declining significance in the United States today.
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Richly documented ... A splendid book. American Apartheid explores a topic that many of us have come to take for granted, presents a fascinating array of data that have never been assembled in one place and compellingly argues that segregation is crucial to understanding what has happened to [urban] blacks. Andrew Billingsley - Washington Post Book World
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Essential reading for anyone interested in the causes, and possible cures, of urban poverty. Charles Murray - Times Literary Supplement
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An incredibly readable book that must be studied by all Americans-liberal and conservative, black and white. Roberto M. Fernandez - Contemporary Sociology
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In the meticulousness of its research and the density of its arguments, [American Apartheid] stands well apart from even the best-argued and most amply documented books by journalists on racial problems. Nathan Glazer
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A major contribution to our understanding of both racism and poverty... One hopes that the book will be read, not only by other scholars and policy analysts, but by a broad spectrum of citizens and by all the leaders of the nation. New Republic
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“This outstanding collection on segregation deserves to be the ‘go to text in the field. I will consult it again and again for both instruction and research. Kudos to the editors.”
Synopsis
This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.
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significance in the United States today.
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This volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe to explore the processes that lead to segregation and the outcomes and implications that result. Making use of new methods and data sources that offer fresh perspectives on segregation in different contexts, the book considers how the spatial patterning of segregation might be best understood and measured.
About the Author
Christopher D. Lloyd is a senior lecturer in geography at the University of Liverpool.Ian Shuttleworth is a senior lecturer in geography and the director of the NILS-RSU at Queen's University Belfast.David W. Wong is professor of geography at the University of Hong Kong and at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Table of Contents
Introduction
~ Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong
Section 1: Concepts & Methods
Segregation matters measurement matters
~ Ron Johnston, Mike Poulsen and Jim Forrest
Using a general spatial pattern index to evaluate spatial segregation
~ David Wong
Measuring ‘neighbourhood segregation using spatial interaction data
~ Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and Gemma Catney
The Micro-Geography of Segregation: Evidence from Historical US Census Data
~ Antonio Páez, Manuel Ruiz, Fernando López and John Logan
Neighbourhood racial diversity and white residential segregation in the United States
~ Richard Wright, Mark Ellis and Steven Holloway
Analysing segregation using individualized neighbourhoods
~ John Östh, Bo Malmberg, and Eva Andersson
The international comparability of ethnicity and collective identity implications for segregation studies
~ Pablo Mateos
Section 2: Processes
Perspectives on social segregation and migration: spatial scale, mixing and places
~ Ian Shuttleworth, Myles Gould and Paul Barr
“Sleepwalking towards Johannesburg”? Local measures of ethnic segregation between Londons secondary schools, 2003 -2008/9
~ Rich Harris
Segregation, choice based letting and social housing: How housing policy can affect the segregation process
~ Maarten van Ham and David Manley
Demographic understandings of changes in ethnic residential segregation across the life course
~ Albert Sabater and Nissa Finney
A Tale of Two Cities: Residential Segregation in St. Louis and Cincinnati
~ Sungsoon Hwang
Section 3: Outcomes & Implications
‘Religious concentration and health outcomes in Northern Ireland
~ Gemma Catney
Class Segregation
~ Danny Dorling
Exploring socioeconomic characteristics of ethnically-divided neighbourhoods
~ Kenneth French
Section 4: Conclusions and outcomes
Conclusion: Possible future agendas and summary thoughts
~Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David