Residential Segregation 8

Question 1

In 1960, ___ percent of census tracts in metropolitan areas were less than one percent black. In 2000, only ___ percent of census tracts had fewer than one percent African-American residents

Answer 1

61.8, 23.1 (Gleaser & Vigdor 2001)

Question 2

What does the dissimilarity index measure?

Answer 2

The “Dissimilarity” index is a measure of the proportion of black people (or non-blacks) that would need to move across census tracts to get a perfectly even proportion of black residents across the entire MSA.

Question 3

Blacks overwhelmingly prefer __-__ area

Answer 3

They find that blacks overwhelmingly prefer 50-50 area, a density far too high for most whites – but their preferences are driven not by solidarity or neutral ethnocentrism but by fears of white hostility. (Krysan & Farley 2002)

Question 4

What role does white preferences play in neighborhood stratification?

Answer 4

White preferences play a key role, since whites are reluctant to move into neighborhoods with more than a few blacks. (Krysan & Farley 2002)

Question 5

Overall Whites are __ to __ times more likely to move out of neighborhoods with 10% or more Black residents than they are neighborhoods that have 10% or fewer Black residents

Answer 5

3 to 4 (Quillian 2002)