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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED346215 AUTHOR: Orfield, Gary; Gaebler, Ken
TITLE: Residential Segregation and the 1990 Census.
Metropolitan Chicago Census Analysis Project. Report No. 1.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 16 p.; Jointly prepared by the Leadership Council for
Metropolitan Open Communities.
ABSTRACT: This paper is the first in a series of reports on
racial patterns in the 1990 Census, and it discusses and
provides statistical data on Black and Latino segregation
in Chicago (Illinois) and its metropolitan area.
Computations for this report were conducted at the Chicago
Urban League Research and Planning Department. One table
lists the Black to White index of dissimilarity for Chicago
and six county metropolitan areas; and another table lists
the Black to White exposure index for Chicago and these
same six county metropolitan areas. A third table lists the
index of dissimilarity for 261 municipalities in 1990, in
terms of Black to White, Black to Hispanic American,
Hispanic American to White, and number of city blocks.
Chicago and its suburbs have been extremely segregated
residentially for Blacks since the great migration to the
city began in World War I. Recent work on the 1980 Census
found Chicago to be one of the few American metropolitan
areas to be "hypersegregated." Increasing Black
suburbanization has brought a significant decline in the
overall segregation level in the region. The segregation
level for all of metropolitan Chicago in 1980 was 91 on the
dissimilarity index; by 1990, the number had declined
substantially to 71. Latinos are now as segregated from
Whites in the region as are Blacks. A pattern of severe
isolation is developing, and the underlying trends are less
favorable for Latinos than for Blacks. The future of race
relations in the region will be strongly affected by
whether or not Chicago evolves into integrated communities
or expanding suburban ghettos. (SLD)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Elementary-Secondary-Education;
Migration-; Racial-Differences; Racial-Discrimination;
Social-Problems; Sociocultural-Patterns; Suburbs-;
Tables-Data; Urban-Areas; Whites-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Black-Population-Trends; *Census-Figures;
*Ethnic-Distribution; *Hispanic-Americans; *Housing-;
*Racial-Segregation
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