Abstract
Abstract
This chapter examines the causes and consequences of segregation and diversity in metropolitan Detroit. The city is at least 80 percent African-American, while the suburbs are at least 85 percent White. For years, the city has been losing employment opportunities, residential development has been largely suburban, disparities have been widening between the city and its suburbs, and inequalities have been increasing in both. Although it is common to explain segregation in terms of “white flight to suburbs and black neighborhoods left behind,” its causes are more complex. “Detroit divided” has been fueled by investment decisions by big builders and mortgage lenders, private institutions and government programs, federal housing and transportation agencies, and social science and mass media, while race and racism have long confounded the urban-suburban situation.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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