Author(s):
Richard A. Wright* - Dartmouth College
Steven Holloway - University of Georgia
Mark Ellis - University of Washington
Abstract:
This essay reflects on the racial configuration of urban space. Previous research tends to posit racial segregation and diversity as either endpoints on a continuum of racial dominance or mirror images of one another. Segregation and diversity must be jointly understood and are necessarily related, but in this paper we make the case that the neighborhood geographies of US metropolitan areas are simultaneously and increasingly marked by both racial segregation and racial diversity. We inspect the neighborhood racial structure of several large metropolitan areas for 1990 and 2000 to demonstrate the "both/and"-ness of segregation and diversity.
