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ArticleDemography2016

The Contributions of Places to Metropolitan Ethnoracial Diversity and Segregation: Decomposing Change Across Space and Time.

Christopher S Fowler, Barrett A Lee, Stephen A Matthews

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Article in Demography, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Decomposing changes in subnational income inequality in the United States, 1980-2019.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2025
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  6. The Instability of Highly Racially Diverse Residential Neighborhoods in the United States.Sociology of race and ethnicity (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2020
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  7. Predicting neighborhood racial change in large US metropolitan areas, 1990-2010.Environment and planning. B, urban analytics and city science · 2018
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  10. Structure and information in spatial segregation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Christopher S FowlerPopulation Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 601 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA, 16802, USA. csfowler@psu.edu.
Barrett A LeePopulation Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 601 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
Stephen A MatthewsPopulation Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 601 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.

Funding

Population Research InstituteR24HD041025 · NICHD · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK · PI JOHNSON, DAVID R · 2001 to 2016
$9.7M
The Population Research Institute: Development CoreP2CHD041025 · NICHD · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI Sarah Damaske · 2016 to 2026
$9.0M
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in American Communities, 1980-2010R01HD074605 · NICHD · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI LEE, BARRETT A · 2013 to 2015
$728k
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD041025NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD074605NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD041025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the trend toward greater ethnoracial diversity in the United States has been documented at a variety of geographic scales, most research tracks diversity one scale at a time. Our study bridges scales, asking how the diversity and segregation patterns of metropolitan areas are influenced by shifts in the racial/ethnic composition of their constituent places. Drawing on 1980-2010 decennial census data, we use a new visual tool to compare the distributions of place diversity for 50 U.S. metro areas over three decades. We also undertake a decomposition analysis of segregation within these areas to evaluate hypotheses about the roles of different types of places in ethnoracial change. The decomposition indicates that although principal cities continue to shape the overall diversity of metro areas, their relative impact has declined since 1980. Inner suburbs have experienced substantial increases in diversity during the same period. Places with large white majorities now contribute more to overall metropolitan diversity than in the past. In contrast, majority black and majority Hispanic places contribute less to metropolitan diversity than in the past. The complexity of the patterns we observe is underscored through an inspection of two featured metropolises: Chicago and Dallas.

Indexed as

Cultural DiversityAsianBlack or African AmericanCitiesEthnicityHispanic or LatinoHumansPrejudiceRacial GroupsResidence CharacteristicsUnited StatesUrban PopulationWhite PeopleDiversityMultiscalePlacesRace/ethnicitySegregation

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PMID27783360
PMCPMC5131869

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