Racial Residential Segregation: Tracking Three Decades in a Single City
Description:
This study evaluated the relative association of socioeconomic, minority group and housing characteristics of census tracts with the racial composition of residential areas within one southwestern city between 1950 and 1980. The unit of analysis was the census tract; the data were taken from the U.S. Census of Population and Housing 1950-1980 for the Fort Worth, Texas SMSAs. The Index of Dissimilarity compared racial segregation in the Fort Worth urbanized area for blacks with all others (1950…
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Date:
August 1990
Creator:
Clark, Marjorie, 1921-
Partner:
UNT Libraries