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. 2016 Dec;53(6):1933-1953.
doi: 10.1007/s13524-016-0516-4.

Global Neighborhoods: Beyond the Multiethnic Metropolis

Wenquan Zhang  1 , John R Logan  2
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Global Neighborhoods: Beyond the Multiethnic Metropolis

Wenquan Zhang et al. Demography. 2016 Dec.

Abstract

Neighborhoods where blacks and whites live in integrated settings alongside Hispanics and Asians represent a new phenomenon in the United States. These "global neighborhoods" have previously been identified in the nation's most diverse metropolitan centers. This study examines the full range of metropolitan areas to ask whether similar processes are occurring in other parts of the country. Is there evidence of stable racial integration in places that lack such diversity? What are the paths of neighborhood change in areas with few Hispanic or Asian residents, or areas where Hispanics are the principal minority group, or where there is no large minority presence at all? We distinguish four types of metropolitan regions: white, white/black, white/Hispanic/Asian, and multiethnic. These regions necessarily differ greatly in neighborhood composition, but some similar trajectories of neighborhood change are found in all of them. The results provide new evidence of the effect of Hispanic and Asian presence on black-white segregation in all parts of the country.

Keywords: Global neighborhoods; Immigrant buffer; Metropolitan America; Residential transition; Segregation.

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Four Types of Metropolitan Areas in the US 1980
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Four Types of Metropolitan Areas in the US 2010
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Projected versus Observed Trends of Transition in Each Type of Metro
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Projected and Observed Transition of All-white and Global Neighborhoods in Each Type of Metro
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New Global Neighborhoods by Their 1980 Neighborhood Type in Each Type of Metro
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Change and Retention of White, Minority, and Global Neighborhoods by Type of Metro, 1980–2010 Note: Change is defined as the difference in the share of all census tracts in each category between 1980 and 2010. Retention is the share of tracts in a category in 1980 that were still in the same category in 2010.
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