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SUBMITTER: Lee BA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4196718 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Barrett A BA Reardon Sean F SF Firebaugh Glenn G Farrell Chad R CR Matthews Stephen A SA O'Sullivan David D
American sociological review 20081001 5
The census tract-based residential segregation literature rests on problematic assumptions about geographic scale and proximity. We pursue a new tract-free approach that combines explicitly spatial concepts and methods to examine racial segregation across egocentric local environments of varying size. Using 2000 census data for the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, we compute a spatially modified version of the information theory index <i>H</i> to describe patterns of black-white, Hispanic-wh ...[more]