The changing spatial pattern of metropolitan racial segregation, 1900–2020: the rise of macro-segregation

IF 2.7 1区社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY

Social Forces Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI:10.1093/sf/soaf069

H Jacob Carlson, John R Logan, Jongho Won

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Abstract

This paper tracks 120 years of Black-white segregation in US metropolitan areas. We draw on comprehensive Census data at consistent small-scale geographies to study segregation trajectories in 219 metropolitan areas since 1900. We update past research to show that total segregation in metropolitan areas peaked around 1960 and has now fallen below its 1930 level. Our major focus is on the spatial components of segregation. We show that two types of macro-segregation—increasing racial disparities between cities and their surrounding areas and rising segregation between communities within suburbia—became substantial only after 1950 and have remained at a similar level since 1960. At that time, micro-segregation (separation between neighborhoods in cities and in suburbia) had begun to fall. Multivariate analyses over time show how suburban fragmentation, socioeconomic differences between Black and white workers, and changes in the size of the Black population were associated with these trends in each component of segregation. The durability of segregation today is largely due to macro-segregation, which by 2020 accounts for nearly half of total metropolitan segregation.

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1900-2020年大都市种族隔离的空间格局变化：宏观种族隔离的兴起

这篇论文追踪了美国都市地区120年来的黑人与白人的种族隔离。我们利用一致的小规模地理区域的全面人口普查数据，研究了1900年以来219个大都市地区的种族隔离轨迹。我们更新了过去的研究，表明大都市地区的种族隔离在1960年左右达到顶峰，现在已经低于1930年的水平。我们的主要重点是隔离的空间组成部分。我们表明，两种类型的宏观隔离——城市及其周边地区之间日益扩大的种族差异和郊区社区之间日益加剧的种族隔离——直到1950年之后才变得实质性，并且自1960年以来一直保持在类似的水平。那时，微隔离（城市和郊区社区之间的隔离）已经开始消失。随着时间的推移，多变量分析表明，郊区的碎片化、黑人和白人工人之间的社会经济差异以及黑人人口规模的变化与种族隔离的每个组成部分的趋势有关。今天种族隔离的持久性主要是由于宏观种族隔离，到2020年，宏观种族隔离将占总大都市种族隔离的近一半。

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Social Forces SOCIOLOGY-

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6.30

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6.20%

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123

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