This study uses a year of ethnographic fieldwork, over 50 informal ethnographic interviews in a racially diverse neighborhood in Milwaukee, WI, and formal interviews with 30 neighborhood residents, workers, and business owners, to examine how neighborhood residential diversity affects cross-racial interactions there. The study found that, despite…

The movement of middle-class residents, especially blacks, out of inner-city neighborhoods has been hypothesized to contribute to the decay of the inner city and the growth of an underclass by increasing social isolation and depriving youth of role models. This study examines changes in patterns of racial and class segregation in the residential…