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>> Our research takes as a point of
departure the nature of segregation
and admits quit readily that
segregation has indeed declined.
But what our research is also able to show
that while segregation has been underway,
new forms of diversity have emerged and
new forms of segregation have also emerged.
So we, rather than thinking of segregation
and diversity as being on a continuum
from segregated to diverse, moving linearly
between those two points our research admits
to the possibility of folds in that continuum,
the possibility that you can have segregation
and diversity at the same place
at the same time and increasing
in similar places or decreasing
in similar places.
If you map out Landry [phonetic] 1990 using
our cartographic visualization scheme,
using our mapping categories,
you would see a white black city.
It would be archetypically white suburbs
and African American central city,
a poster child for a core periphery black
white differentiated city in the United States,
something that you would see in Detroit
or Pittsburgh or Cincinnati today.
A lot of those changed a lot.
In that 20 year period there
were dramatic changes.
The all white suburbs were reduced by 2/3.
So instead of having a suburb in
communities that were 80% black so about 2/3
of those communities moved from segregated
white or white dominant, low diverse,
according to our schemer, to white
dominant, moderately diverse.
So they diversified.
At the same time, African American tracks
also increased in number and we see the growth
of moderately diverse African American tracks.
And at the same time we see the growth of black
dominated, low diversity African American tracks
so increasing segregation with
increasing diversity at the same time.
And of course there are now in Atlanta
tracks where Latinos are numerically dominate
and there are tracks in Atlanta
where nobody is, no group dominates.
In fact, no two groups dominate
and those of highly diverse tracks.
And we see a growth of those
tracks, you know maybe they start
from a small number but they grow 300%, 400%.
And now they represent a
noticeable portion as a neighborhood
and the inner ring circles of Atlanta.
I think our research strikes a cautionary note.
We do see the end of the era where certain
neighborhoods were all white or all black.
We don't have those places anymore.
We do see also white suburban
tracks becoming much less white.
They are increasingly diverse.
What we also see in our research though is the
persistence of segregation of African Americans.
And this should be a course for concern.
It has been shown that segregated communities of
African Americans don't have the same resources,
access to resources that others do in society.
And this has been to their detriment.
So it is premature to celebrate the
end of segregation in the United States
or it is premature to celebrate the
increasing diversity of the United States.
Our research strikes a cautionary note.
