This study examines the bases of residential segregation in a late nineteenth century American city, recognizing the strong tendency toward homophily within neighborhoods. Our primary question is how ...

Before the Census was mailed to every household in America, it was gathered by counters walking door-to-door who collected along the way an inadvertent historical record not just of who we were in ...

Miao David Chunyu discusses segregation in New York City and Chicago. Miao David Chunyu, Assistant Professor in Sociology and Social Work at UW-Stevens Point, shares his research regarding the level ...

The United States—and Americans—has long been divided along racial lines, divisions that date back to the legacy of slavery, the bloody Civil War, the horrors of the Jim Crow South, and now to the ...

Dr. John R. Logan, hosted by the University of Connecticut History Department, provided insight into pre-Jim Crow residential segregation in the South to a crowd of students Friday afternoon in Wood ...

This Federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HLOC) map of Baltimore from 1937 illustrates patterns of segregation that accompanied discriminatory practices in federal policy and the real estate ...