ArticlePopulation, space and place2023
Racial residential segregation and child mortality in the southern United States at the turn of the 20th century.
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- How the Struggle for Public Health in the Jim Crow South Reflected and Reinforced Systemic Racial Health Inequality.Du Bois review : social science research on race · 2025Article
- New Data Sources for Research on the Nineteenth-Century United States: IPUMS Full Count Datasets of the Censuses of Population 1850-1880.Historical methods · 2025Article
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Abstract
A growing body of research considers racial residential segregation to be a form of systemic racism and a fundamental cause of persistent racial disparities in health and mortality. Historical research examining the impact of segregation on health and mortality, however, is limited to a few studies with poor data and inconsistent results. In this study, we examine the association between racial residential segregation and child mortality in the South at the turn of the 20th century. We rely on the new IPUMS 1900 and 1910 complete-count databases to estimate child mortality in the 5 years before each census and construct segregation measures at the census enumeration district (ED), the lowest level of geography consistently available in the census. We calculate the proportion of households headed by Black individuals in each ED, and the Sequence Index of Segregation (
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