Residential Segregation: What Are the Causes? (Testimony of Gary Orfield, March 22, 1996).

Orfield, Gary

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ERIC Number: EJ569682

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Publication Date: 1997

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Residential Segregation: What Are the Causes? (Testimony of Gary Orfield, March 22, 1996).

Orfield, Gary

Journal of Negro Education, v66 n3 p204-13 Sum 1997

Testifying on housing patterns in St. Louis (Missouri), this expert indicates that St. Louis has been, and continues to be, a highly racially segregated metropolitan area, where the housing effects of past discrimination have not disappeared. Schools remain an important factor in the voluntary choice of residential area. (SLD)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Housing, Racial Composition, Racial Discrimination, Racial Segregation, Residential Patterns, School Desegregation, Urban Schools, Urban Youth

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials

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Language: English

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