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The Waning of American Apartheid? Residential Segregation Declines in U.S. Metros

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2011Culture1600 pennsylvania avenue, 2008 presidential election, apartheid, black neighbor, black white segregation, brown university, chicago and detroit, city of detroit, equal housing opportunities, healthcare, institute for social research, isr, local tax rates, motor city, obama family, racial attitudes of white detroiters, racial segregation, reynolds farley, united states, university of michigan, urban america

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— The ideal of equal housing opportunities is closer to becoming a reality in most major U.S. metro areas, according to a University of Michigan researcher.

“While black-white segregation remains high in many places, there are reasons to be optimistic that ‘apartheid’ no longer aptly describes much of urban America,” said Reynolds Farley, an investigator at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR) who studies racial segregation in the United States. (more…)

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