▪ Abstract The publication of American Apartheid was influential in shifting public discourse
back toward racial residential segregation as fundamental to persisting racial inequality. At …

▪ Abstract During the twentieth century, African Americans participated in one of the most
significant demographic events in US history. Their “Great Migration” from the South to the …

Drawing on novel survey data of Milwaukee renters, this study documents the prevalence of
involuntary displacement from housing and estimates its consequences for neighborhood …

Combining statistical and ethnographic analyses, this article explores the prevalence and
ramifications of eviction in the lives of the urban poor. A quantitative analysis of …

Residential instability often brings about other forms of instability in families, schools, and
communities that compromise the life chances of adults and children. Social scientists have …

Assimilation theory has been subject to intensive critique for decades. Yet no other
framework has provided the social science community with as deep a corpus of cumulative …

The term" black middle class" conjures up a monolithic image of blacks whose everyday
lives do not differ significantly from that of their working class or poor black neighbors as they …

In this revealing book, Lance Freeman sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: how
does gentrification actually affect residents of neighborhoods in transition? To find out …

Despite frequent moves, low–income black families are more likely than any other group to
churn among disadvantaged neighborhoods, and the least likely to escape them. Traditional …

Racial and socioeconomic stratification have long governed patterns of residential sorting in
the American metropolis. However, recent expansions of school choice policies that allow …