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Direct linkChang, Virginia W.; Hillier, Amy E.; Mehta, Neil K. – Social Forces, 2009
Recent research suggests that racial residential segregation may be detrimental to health. This study investigates the influence of neighborhood racial isolation on obesity and considers the role of neighborhood disorder as a mediator in this relationship. For the city of Philadelphia, we find that residence in a neighborhood with high black…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Obesity, Body Composition, Females
Download full textBecker, Henry Jay – 1979
It is widely believed that neighborhoods that are substantially racially integrated will resegregate, becoming overwhelmingly black over a few years. This belief follows from the assumption that few white families will move into a racially mixed neighborhood. Using data from the Neighborhood Characteristics File of the 1970 Census, Mid-Atlantic…
Descriptors: Blacks, Desegregation Effects, Family Characteristics, Migration
Commission on Human Relations, Philadelphia, PA. – 1960
THIS 1960 STATEMENT OF THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS DESCRIBES THE PROBLEM OF DE FACTO SEGREGATION IN PHILADELPHIA. THE EXTENT OF SCHOOL AND FACULTY SEGREGATION IS INDICATED, AND THE REASONS FOR ITS EXISTENCE ARE DISCUSSED. IT IS FELT THAT THE CULTURAL DEFICIT WHICH RESULTS FROM RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND SEGREGATION REQUIRES COMPENSATORY…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Students, Community Attitudes, Compensatory Education
