Income segregation rose sharply in US cities from 1970 to 1990

Evidence

From about 1950 on, accordingly, segregation across and not just within cities began to increase. By the 1980s this trend had become evident: increasingly members of ethnoracially defined and identified groups, and not only blacks, while living in different neighborhoods from whites tended also and emphatically to live in different cities. Their children now likely attend overwhelmingly segregated schools in different school districts, growing up literally not knowing each other beyond the stilted stereotypical images they glean from television and other audio-visual media. Recent judicial efforts to end the use of racially emphasized means to desegregate public schools across a broad swath of American states are already exacerbating the trends to resegregation. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 379 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US income inequality roughly doubled between 1980 and 2007. — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 59; Income differences alone generate low-to-moderate residential segregation; US urban black segregation increased sharply after 1950 but only in larger cities — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 382 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Segregation shifted from within cities to between cities from the 1950s onward. #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 379
• As black urbanization grew so did intra-city residential segregation #complicates (0.72)