Residential Segregation 13

Question 1

Asian subgroups, despite their recent arrival, have high percentages, above __%, of whites in their suburban neighborhoods.

Answer 1

80 (Fong & Shibuya 2005)

Question 2

In 2000, what percent of poor blacks and Hispanics lived in poor neighborhoods? How about whites?

Answer 2

18, 14, 6 (Jargowsky 2003)

Question 3

Only a _____ of white Americans believe that discrimination is an important explanation for why blacks do worse than whites in income, housing, and jobs

Answer 3

third (Pager & Shepard 2008)

Question 4

Blacks experience consistent adverse treatment in roughly ___ in ____ housing searches and Hispanics experience consistent adverse treatment in roughly ___ out of ____ housing searches (both rental and sales).

Answer 4

one in five, one out of four (Pager & Shepard 2008)

Question 5

Research done by Massey and Lundy (2001) using telephone audits further points to a gender and class dimension of racial discrimination among rental agents towards blacks. What did they find?

Answer 5

Compared with whites, African-Americans were 1) less likely to get through and speak to a rental agent 2) less likely to be told of a unit’s availability 3) more likely to pay application fees 4) more likely to have credit worthiness mentioned as a potential problem in qualifying for a lease. By far the most disadvantaged group, however, was lower-class black females. (Massey & Lundy 2001)