Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration

by Ingrid Gould Ellen

Book Overview

The first part of this book presents a fresh and encouraging report on the state of racial integration in America's neighborhoods. It shows that while the majority are indeed racially segregated, a substantial and growing number are integrated, and remain so for years.

Still, many integrated neighborhoods do unravel quickly, and the second part of the book explores the root causes. Instead of panic and "white flight" causing the rapid breakdown...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674003012
• ISBN13: 9780674003019
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"