SOC 205 Lecture Notes - Memphis, Tennessee, Landfill, Gilgit-Baltistan
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Close connection between a group"s spatial position in society and its socioeconomic well being . Rapid immigration and slow socioeconomic mobility tend to display higher levels of segregation rapid rates of socioeconomic mobility and slow rates of immigration tend to be more integrated . Ethnic segregation not too high because of few residential barriers for immigrants. Individual black citizens are less able to capitalize on their own hard-won attainments and achieve desirable residential locations . Tend to live in systematically disadvantaged neighborhoods . Barriers to spatial mobility are barriers to social mobility . Blacks: southern & rural whites: northern & urban. The combination of growing urban black populations and higher levels of segregation could only produce one possible outcome- higher levels of black isolation. No other ethnic or racial group in the history of the united states has ever, even briefly, experienced such high levels of residential segregation . Displacement of blacks by asians & hispanics- drop in l. a.
