"5" Result
Sort By:
"Anyone who wants to gain an authoritative understanding of what race and ethnicity mean in the contemporary United States should read this book. The facts are here, along with some theoretical persepectives that will help us to interpret them ..."--George M. Fredrickson, Edgar …
Acknowledgements -- Segregation then and now -- Historical roots of segregation and the need for a new lens -- Patterns and consequences of segregation -- The structural sorting perspective -- A new lens on segregation -- Social networks : the social part of the theory -- From w…
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination by race and provided an important tool for dismantling legal segregation. But almost 50 years later, residential segregation remains virtually unchanged in many metropolitan areas, particularly where large groups of ra…