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Segregation in the U.S.: Racial Segregation
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In their analysis researchers looked at racial segregation in 147 MSAs with 7,196 nursing homes that care for more than 800,000 residents. Researchers used the Dissimilarity Index, the most common measure of residential segregation. The index indicates the combined percentage of residents in both races who would have to be relocated for there to be an equal proportion of blacks and whites in the nursing home.
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This raises a question: are segregated black and Hispanic neighborhoods poorer simply because their inhabitants happen to be poor, or does racial segregation cause the poverty of their inhabitants? The model below shows that, while hardly the only factor, racial segregation is a major cause of systematic economic disadvantage for blacks. By parallel reasoning, it is probably ... a significant cause of disadvantage for Hispanics, although empirical evidence on this point is not as extensive as in the case of blacks. Note that many of the factors below affect middle-class, not just poor, residents of segregated neighborhoods. Middle-class status, as measured by family income, occupation, or education, therefore does not confer the same economic advantages on segregated blacks as on whites.
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The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the U.S. The recent 50th anniversary of Brown prompted a surge of tributes. At the same time, says UGA history professor James Cobb, it revealed a growing trend of dismissiveness and negativity toward Brown and other accomplishments of the civil rights movement. Cobb responds in The Brown Decision, Jim Crow & Southern Identity to what he sees as distortions of Brown’s legacy and their implied disservice to those whom it inspired and empowered.
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Many of the discriminatory Jim Crow laws were enacted to support racial segregation in everyday life. They required black and white people to use separate water fountains, public schools, public bath houses, restaurants, public libraries, buses and rail cars—although, even without legal segregation, the desire of the white majority to use the frequently inferior facilities set aside for black use was limited.
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If you surveyed the maps in Racial Segregation in the U.S., two facts would be evident: 1. Moderate to high levels of black/white racial segregation, and somewhat lower but still substantial Hispanic/white segregation, are the norm for major U.S. metropolitan regions.
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It has been nearly 60 years since President Harry Truman ended racial segregation in the U.S. military. But at Forward Operating Base Warhorse it's alive and well, perhaps the only U.S. military facility with such rules, Iraqi interpreters here say.
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