By Emily Rosenbaum
ISBN-10: 081477590X
ISBN-13: 9780814775905
ISBN-10: 1435607465
ISBN-13: 9781435607460
The Housing Divide examines the generational styles in big apple City's housing marketplace and neighborhoods alongside the traces of race and ethnicity. The e-book offers an in-depth research of many immigrant teams in manhattan, specifically delivering an realizing of the possibilities and discriminatory practices at paintings from one iteration to the following. via a cautious learn of such components as domestic possession, housing caliber, and local premiums of crime, welfare enrollment, teenage being pregnant, and academic success, Emily Rosenbaum and Samantha Friedman offer a close portrait of local existence and socio-economic prestige for the immigrants of latest York.
The ebook paints a tremendous, if tense, photograph. The authors argue that not just are Blacks—regardless of generation—disadvantaged relative to contributors of different racial/ethnic teams of their skill to procure housing in high quality neighborhoods, yet that housing and local stipulations really decline over generations. Rosenbaum and Friedman's findings recommend that the way forward for racial inequality during this kingdom will more and more isolate Blacks from all different teams. In different phrases, the “color line” could be transferring from a line keeping apart Blacks from Whites to at least one keeping apart Blacks from all non-Blacks.
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Whether they are labor migrants or human-capital migrants), the context of their reception in the United States, residence in disadvantaged inner-city neighborhoods, proximity to and identification with native minorities, insufficient or nonexistent ethnic niches, and dark complexions. More specifically, most agree that Afro-Caribbean and African immigrants, along with Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexicans, are most likely to encounter serious obstacles to their incorporation into American society.
Thus, for African Americans, the link between socioeconomic status and housing status has not been as strong as it has been for whites; as a group, African Americans are less able than whites to “cash in” their hard-earned gains in income, education, and occupational status for homes in better neighborhoods. 45 Because racial segregation, and the dual housing market that undergirds it, has historically been imposed on African Americans, it limits their access to many of the amenities conducive to upward mobility and thus helps to maintain racial inequality.
To this end we now shift attention to the theoretical models that describe the residential mobility process. Residential Mobility Traditional models of residential mobility have conceptualized the process of moving from one residence to another as consisting of two stages: the decision to move and the choice of where to move. The separation of these two stages is useful, especially when examining how members of different racial and ethnic groups may come to occupy dwellings and neighborhoods of very different quality.