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Inner Cities
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Chicago New York
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Racial Segregation
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In 2000, residential segregation (as measured by the dissimilarity index) indicates that the following proportion of each racial population was geographically segregated from Whites. African Americans (64%); Latinos (51%) and Asians (41%). The U.S. Census Bureau. “Racial and Ethnic Segregation in the United States: 1980-2000”. By John Iceland, Daniel H. Weinbert and Erika Steinmetz. Census 2000 Special Reports. Issued August 2002. CENSR-3. Available on-line at: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/housing_patterns/papertoc.html http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/housing_patterns/papertoc.html
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Neighborhood Segregation = Socioeconomic isolation Over 3.1 million African Americans lived in Concentrated Poverty Neighborhoods in 2000, Blacks and Latinos represent nearly 3 out of 4 residents in these neighborhoods Nearly 1 out of 10 Blacks lived in a concentrated poverty neighborhood in 1999, compared to 1 out of 100 Whites Whites only make 30% of people living in high poverty neighborhoods, although they represent 55% of the total population living in poverty 10
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Low percentage of African Americans = yellow. High percentage of African Americans = brown
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gentrification
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