In 1990, 33.9 percent of Black Americans in what are known as metropolitan statistical areas lived in the suburbs.
The suburbs are arguably at the frontline of America’s ‘diversity explosion,’ where economic integration and cultural assimilation occur or are contested.
In this context, Lichter, Thiede and Brooks contend thatThe idea of “melting-pot suburbs,” which signals residential integration, hardly seems apt.
To be sure, the largest declines in Black-white segregation over the past decade were found in the suburbs.
In fact, Black exposure to Whites in the suburbs seems to have declined, at least in those parts of the suburbs where most of the metro Black population lives.
Persons:
Mast, Brooks, ”
Organizations:
Whites, Blacks, ”
Locations:
Black, —, Lichter, ”