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ERIC Number: ED593993
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Dec
Pages: 33
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
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White Growth, Persistent Segregation: Could Gentrification Become Integration?
Mordechay, Kfir; Ayscue, Jennifer
Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles
A major force in urban neighborhoods across the country, gentrification is also transforming the nation's capital. In 2011, Washington, DC reached a non-black majority for the first time in more than a half century, and since 2000, the city's white population has increased from just over a quarter to well over a third of the total population. This radical demographic transformation has deemed Washington, DC a "hotbed" of gentrification. Since gentrifying neighborhoods have the required residential integration to facilitate school integration, this report examines whether the potential educational and social benefits that could come from greater racial and socioeconomic diversity are being realized in the city's most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. The analysis of neighborhoods and school enrollment patterns reveals that in Washington, DC's most rapidly gentrifying areas, racial segregation has declined, more so in traditional public schools (TPS) than in charters. While this trend is promising, a high level of racial segregation remains, and substantial progress is still needed to ensure that these newly integrated neighborhoods also mean integrated schools. Gentrification is changing the demographic landscape of neighborhoods across the country and can potentially introduce social and financial capital to neighborhoods and urban school districts that previously lacked it. It is therefore essential that the gentrification process be managed to ensure that it creates inclusive communities and schools, rather than displacing low-income residents and residents of color. [Foreword written by Gary Orfield.]
Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles. 8370 Math Sciences, P.O. Box 951521, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521. Tel: 310-267-5562; Fax: 310-206-6293; e-mail: crp@ucla.edu; Web site: http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, Center for Civil Rights Remedies (CCRR)
Identifiers - Location: District of Columbia
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