Urban Studies Model Scholar Lecture | How Surprising Neighborhood Changes Are Bringing Down Black-White Segregation

Join Urban Studies for the 20th Annual Model Scholar Lecture featuring John R. Logan, sociology professor at Brown University About the talk: It is well known by now that the overall level of Black-white segregation in American urban areas is going down. One surprise is that the largest contributions to this decline are coming from predominantly Black neighborhoods that are remaining very disproportionately Black. To a large extent these are the poor inner city neighborhoods that were built up by the Great Migration in the mid-20th Century era of near-apartheid. Their Black residents are leavi