Of America's 318 official metro areas only Gary, Indiana is more racially segregated than Detroit.
The research found that outside of major cities, schools are becoming more segregated than their local communities.
He points out that middle-class blacks are only marginally less segregated than poor blacks, living overwhelmingly in black suburbs.
But the relevance of that comparison is twofold: first, it's a reminder that, in fact, New York is much more segregated than a lot of people appreciate.
A16 EDUCATION Religious Schools and Race A Harvard study that analyzed federal data concluded that private religious schools, particularly Catholic ones, were more racially segregated than public schools, though it did not appear to be intentional.
Private religious schools, particularly Roman Catholic ones, are more racially segregated than public schools, according to the first analysis of federal data on private school enrollment, by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.
Older metropolises, he explained, tend to be more residentially segregated than cities that have seen whole new communities spring up since the Fair Housing laws of the 1960s outlawed discrimination.
It is equally plausible that, in communities less rigidly segregated than Chicago's, minorities have been attracted into areas near existing waste sites by industrial jobs or affordable property.In most cases, according to Vicki Been, a professor of law at New York University, the waste site came before the blacks or Latinos did.
Senegalese migrants are one of the most recent and vulnerable immigrant groups in Spain: they have a high irregularity rate (31,6% in 2008), they intensely concentrate in precarious jobs (Obućina, 2013) – which makes them more susceptible to internal mobility – and they are more residentially segregated than other groups (Díaz Hernández, Domínguez Mujica, & Parreño Castellano, 2010).
