Class segregation compounds race segregation to hit poor Blacks with the worst neighborhood poverty

Evidence

In the United States, at least, the rich are increasingly living apart from the poor. Although rising income inequality and growing class segregation clearly serve to undermine the socioeconomic welfare of all racial and ethnic groups in the United States, the consequences have been particularly severe for African Americans because they are so highly segregated by race. As a result of the hypersegregation of more than one third of all African Americans, and the very high segregation of most of the rest, poor blacks experience far higher concentrations of neighborhood poverty than the poor of any other group. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2435

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to recent literatures on place-based inequality and to case-study cities in this volume.
• SEED: Essay angle: the interaction of income inequality and hypersegregation as creating a uniquely severe poverty ecology for Black neighborhoods, and whether that compound effect scales to other nations.