A re-examination of the literature on the factors which influence residential segregation in American cities emphasizes the complexity of the factors involved in generating patterns of separation in urban areas and the necessity of considering more than any single factor in order to understand those
Residential segregation in American cities: A further response to Clark
โ Scribed by George Galster
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 685 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-5923
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โฆ Synopsis
Professor Clark's (1986)
claim that discrimination plays little role in explaining segregation was challenged in my contrary review (1988). Clark (1988) has responded, and here I offer a rejoinder. I go further and suggest that the multiple factors related to segregation should be seen as interdependent components in a complex web of mutually causal interrelationships. Preliminary attempts to estimate such a model suggest that discrimination may play an even more important role than is conventionally believed. Professor Clark's (1986) review concluded that private housing discrimination carried little weight in explaining contemporary patterns of racial segregation in American cities. My contrary review (1988) challenged this conclusion. Clark (1988) has responded to this challenge. Unfortunately, this response only further substantiates my original charge of selective reading and erroneous analysis of the evidence.
The present paper provides first a point-by-point rejoinder to Clark's attempted rebuttal of my contrary review. It then suggests a new conceptual approach for analyzing the multiple causes of segregation in which those causes are pictured as imbedded within a simultaneous system of mutually causal interrelationships. Preliminary attempts to empirically estimate the parameters of such a model reinforce my earlier conclusion that discrimination plays a nontrivial (albeit not singular) role in explaining segregation.
The causes of segregation: A point.by.point rejoinder Affordability Clark (1988: 115) apparently now agrees that 10% or less of segregation is explained by interracial income differences alone, but he asserts that wealth differences must be consideredl Certainly ability to afford a down payment affects the homeownership potential of blacks, but how this explains the segregation of black and white renters and of black and white homeowners is problematic. Clark apparently overlooked my earlier note (Galster, 1988:
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Despite the intensity of the recent debate between Clark and Galster, there is considerable agreement that there are multiple forces which create the patterns of residential separation found in American cities, and that government of public discrimination plays a minor rote. The differences between