The Historical Demography of Racial Segregation

dc.contributor.author

Grigoryeva, A

dc.contributor.author

Ruef, M

dc.date.accessioned

2023-03-09T16:07:08Z

dc.date.available

2023-03-09T16:07:08Z

dc.date.issued

2015

dc.date.updated

2023-03-09T16:07:06Z

dc.description.abstract

Standard measures of residential segregation tend to equate spatial with social proximity. This assumption has been increasingly subject to critique among demographers and ethnographers and becomes especially problematic in historical settings. In the late nineteenth-century United States, standard measures suggest a counterintuitive pattern: southern cities, with their long history of racial inequality, had less residential segregation than urban areas considered to be more racially tolerant. By using census enumeration procedures, we develop a sequence measure that captures a more subtle “backyard” pattern of segregation, where white families dominated front streets and blacks were relegated to alleys. Our analysis of complete household data from the 1880 Census documents how segregation took various forms across the postbellum United States. Whereas northern cities developed segregation via racialized neighborhoods, substituting residential inequality for the status inequality of slavery, southern cities embraced street-front segregation that reproduced the racial inequality that existed under slavery.

dc.identifier.issn

0003-1224

dc.identifier.issn

1939-8271

dc.identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/26734

dc.language

en

dc.publisher

SAGE Publications

dc.relation.ispartof

American Sociological Review

dc.relation.isversionof

10.1177/0003122415589170

dc.subject

Social Sciences

dc.subject

Sociology

dc.subject

residential segregation

dc.subject

measures of segregation

dc.subject

race

dc.subject

historical demography

dc.subject

RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION

dc.subject

SOUTHERN CITIES

dc.subject

UNITED-STATES

dc.subject

POPULATION

dc.subject

RACE

dc.subject

INCARCERATION

dc.subject

MIGRATION

dc.subject

MICRODATA

dc.subject

CLUSTERS

dc.subject

PATTERNS

dc.title

The Historical Demography of Racial Segregation

dc.type

Journal article

duke.contributor.orcid

Ruef, M|0000-0002-8134-1514

pubs.begin-page

814

pubs.end-page

842

pubs.issue

4

pubs.organisational-group

Duke

pubs.organisational-group

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

pubs.organisational-group

Sociology

pubs.organisational-group

Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

pubs.organisational-group

Initiatives

pubs.organisational-group

Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship

pubs.publication-status

Published

pubs.volume

80

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
2015_ASR_Grigoryeva&Ruef.pdf
Size:
1.36 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Accepted version