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2002 Racial Integration in Urban America: A Block Level Analysis of African American and White Housing Patterns Lois M. Quinn University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, [email protected]
John Pawasarat University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, [email protected]
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Recommended Citation Quinn, Lois M. and Pawasarat, John, "Racial Integration in Urban America: A Block Level Analysis of African American and White Housing Patterns" (2002). ETI Publications. 119. https://dc.uwm.edu/eti_pubs/119
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Analysis of African American and White Housing Patterns
by Lois M. Quinn and John Pawasarat, Employment and Training Institute, School of Continuing Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, December 2002, revised January 2003
Rankings – whether of cities, states, universities, or high school students -- are very popular with the media and the public. These rankings often purport to measure highly complex conditions based on a single statistic and sometimes can be very damaging for the entities ranked. A recent report on Exposing Urban Legends: The Real Purchasing Power of Central City Neighborhoods, conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute for The Brookings Institution, examined the damage that marketing firms do to cities by ranking neighborhoods based on average household income from richest to poorest and then using racial and other stereotypes that steer retail businesses away from central city neighborhoods. This study examines the basis for the segregation index, which has been used historically to compare urban areas, in order to determine why Milwaukee was ranked as the 3rd most segregated metro area in the U.S. and to assess the strengths and limitations of the formula used to calculate the rankings.
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