Residential Segregation 26

Question 1

What did Iceland and Timberlake (2000) find when using the index of net difference for blacks in 1970 and 2000?

Answer 1

The probability that a randomly selected African American would live in a poorer neighborhood than a randomly selected white person was 65 percent greater than the reverse probability. In 2000, it was down to 50 percent.

Question 2

What did Iceland and Timberlake (2000) find when using the index of net difference for Hispanics in 1970 and 2000?

Answer 2

The probability that a randomly selected Hispanic would live in a poorer neighborhood than a randomly selected white person was 27 percent greater than the reverse probability. In 2000, it was up to 38 percent.

Question 3

What has been the trend for Hispanic segregation from 1970 to 2000?

Answer 3

We see an increase dissimilarity and index and if it continues, they’ll surpass blacks as the most segregated group. (Iceland 2009)

Question 4

Are foreign-born Hispanics, Asians, and blacks more or less segregated from whites than the native-born of those groups?

Answer 4

More segregated (Iceland 2009)

Question 5

Second-generation black immigrants who are middle class are more likely than lower-income immigrants to emphasize what?

Answer 5

Their ethnic identity–their country of origin–than a “black” racial American identity. But black immigrants tend to develop a shared racial group identity with African Americans over time because the broader population treats them that way (Iceland 2009)