"The Negro's Place" examines the relationship between public education and urban development in twentieth-century New Orleans, arguing that the expansion of segregated public schooling eroded two centuries of residential integration and contributed to the disparate development of white and black neighborhoods. The study challenges the popular concept of "white flight" as an explanation for metropolitan change by demonstrating that school segregation, as well as reaction to desegregation, divided urban and suburban space along racial lines. It also inverts prevailing scholarly interpretations of this transformation, which emphasize that public and private manipulation of the housing market created the racially distinct communities that promoted and sustained segregated schools. Additionally, the dissertation's examination of schools, race, and space underscores the extent to which Jim Crow continued to evolve through a dynamic, oftentimes improvisational process during the twentieth century. Finally, it demonstrates that, even as public schools became the sites of courtroom and neighborhood battles over desegregation, they continued to tighten racial inequality in ways that contemporary activists and observers did not always recognize. Most significantly, in the decades before and after World War II, segregated schools created structural inequalities in housing that impeded desegregation's capacity to promote racial justice. / acase@tulane.edu

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association (BTNA) is a community group organized in 1956 by a few concerned couples living in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood on the north side of Indianapolis. These couples, both Black and white, witnessed a demographic change in their community as their white neighbors fled for the suburbs as the black population expanded. The BTNA, inspired to create an organization that would promote residential integration rather than continued segregation, worked to educate neighbors on the realities of integration, promote neighborhood conversation and comradery, and worked to influence the local and state governments on the impact of segregation that harmed their community. One of the first neighborhood organizations of its kind in the country, the BTNA still exists today, but little is known about their early history. This paper looks at the BTNA’s efforts to promote residential segregation in their community through activism, conversation, and legislative change. Additionally, this paper analyzes the BTNA success in its efforts to integrate the community during their first decade of existence.

The aim of this study is to examine how the municipality of Trollhattan works to counteractschool segregation in Kronogarden and integrate the schools in the whole municipality. Theclosure of the schools in Kronogarden is in focus in this study, but there is also the ambitionto look more closely at whether the closure of schools as a measure fulfills a function relatedto previous research. The methods used in this study are qualitative text analysis andinterview method, where framing constituted the analytical framework for the empiricalmaterial in order to be able to analyze. The main results of the study show that themunicipality of Trollhattan works in different directions to counteract and solve schoolsegregation. Kronogarden is in focus for Trollhattan's municipality's work regarding bothcounteracting segregation and integration in general. The results also indicate that schoolsegregation has arisen due to other factors such as housing segregation and school choice.Related to previous research, it is stated that the closure of schools as a measure forintegration purposes has seldom proved to be successful in solving school segregation.Through the analysis, it has been emphasized that in the municipality of Trollhattan, there ismore needed than just closing down schools in certain areas to solve school segregation, as itdoes not constitute the core of the problem.

Infant mortality (IM) rates in the United States remains high. The higher rates of IM among specific groups in the United States is believed to be fueled by the high rates of adverse birth outcomes including low birthweight (LBW) and preterm births (PTB) among these groups. Adverse birth outcomes have also been linked to the presence of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to explore the association between hypertensive disorders during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes and the impact of the residential neighborhood of expectant mothers on this association. The life course health development theory guided the framework for this study. Study data were obtained from the 2010 New York City birth records and the 2010 US Census. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were used to address the 3 research hypotheses of the study. The study found that prepregnancy hypertension (HTN) (AOR: 2.84 & 3.25), gestational HTN (AOR: 2.28 & 3.33) and eclampsia (AOR: 4.41 & 6.70) were significantly associated with PTB and LBW respectively. Neighborhood segregation was not significant for PTB (AOR: 1.01) or LBW (AOR: 1.03). Neighborhood poverty was significant for PTB (AOR: 0.86) but not for LBW (AOR: 1.05). Neighborhood segregation and poverty had significant moderating effects on the prepregnancy HTN (p = 0.00), gestational HTN (p = 0.00), eclampsia (p = 0.00) and PTB and LBW association. Results from this study can help to address disparities in birth outcomes among women of differing races and ethnicities and thereby contribute to positive social change.

The purpose of this study is to research how residential segregation is described within a municipalities municipal planning document. Furthermore, proposed strategies to prevent and work against residential segregation will also be researched in the same documents. The chosen area for the research is Malmö municipality, Hyllie and Rosengård which are neighborhoods within Malmö municipality.  The research represents how residential municipality is described in the chosen areas of the studies. In addition, the research also represents the suggested approaches to prevent residential segregation. The informational for the research has been collected by examining relevant documents provided by the Malmö municipality. The result of the study shows that there are several keywords that are used to describe the phenomenon residential segregation. With the help of previous research, it was not difficult to determine such keywords. Social sustainability, mixed housing, integration, equality are examples of terms used to describe residential segregation.

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Previous studies of interracial couples' residential outcomes in the United States have limited their focus to a truncated selection of interracial couple-types. To provide a more complete understanding of the residential patterns of interracial couples and how they fit into the contemporary color line, I assess an expanded set of interracial and monoracial couple-types' outcomes in percentage White, entropy, and neighborhood income. I do this by employing multiple OLS regression analysis using data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act from 2005 to 2015. My results suggest that different types of interracial couples follow residential patterns that are distinctive from those of monoracial White couples and in many instances, from those of their monoracial couple-type counterparts.

This thesis aims to examine if the rise in crime, in the suburbs of the Stockholm region, can be explained by the effect of residential segregation on behaviour. The main focus of this thesis is the three primary approaches to economics of crime; Freeman’s (1999) cost-benefit analysis, Wynarczyk’s (2002) theory on intersubjectivity and morals affect on crime participation, and finally Feldman and Smith's (2014) analysis of how morals effect good and bad people. To investigate if the rise in crime can be explained by the effect of residential segregation on behaviour, an experimental questionnaire containing six fictitious scenarios isused with the aim of functioning as an experiment in a simplified form. The participants are randomly selected residents from different suburbs around Stockholm, with different ethnic backgrounds and from allages above 15. The experiment generated the data of 348 participants in total, where the participants are placed in different fictional scenarios. In each scenario the participants have to choose whether they would choose to commit crime or not given the context. The scenarios are followed by a shorter section with background questions about gender, age, ethnic background and where in Stockholm they live. With the generated data from the second shorter section we were able to perform logit regression analysis to see the correlations. We found that foreign-born individuals were most likely to commit crime in most scenarios but domestic-born individuals with domestic-born parents were more likely to commit crime when placed in scenarios that were very realistic for those who lived in the exposed suburbs where segregation and crime is very high. However, this result was not statistically significant, which means that further study with more observations could be more informative. This implies that a solution to diffuse crime geographically could be to reduce segregation by having more advantageous nodes, which refers to individuals that are willing to move to neighbourhoods that do not consist of their own kind, and therefore break the structures of parallel societies and have a more integrated society with less crime. In order to establish all the factors that affect crime participation linked to segregation, further research is recommended

Införandet av en ny upplåtelseform, ägarlägenheter kommer förmodligen att ske den 1 april 2009. Många intressanta frågor har väckts kring den nya upplåtelseformen och en av dessa frågor handlar om ägarlägenheter kan bidra till att minska segregationen i de mest utsatta områdena i landet. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka om ägarlägenheter kan minska segregationen i Malmö. Utgångspunkten är att förstå segregationsproblematiken i staden och hur ägarlägenheter eventuellt skulle kunna påverka detta.Studien grundar sig på en kvalitativ metod då vi har genomfört sex strukturerade intervjuer med personer som på olika sätt är engagerade i bostadsfrågor i Malmö. Vi har den deduktiva ansatsen som utgångspunkt då hypotesen Ägarlägenheter kan minska segregationen i Malmö skapats för att besvara vår huvudfrågeställning. Med hjälp av positiviska metoder har vi studerat olika statistik men vi ser verkligheten som en social konstruktion och det är hermeneutiken som vi använt oss av i analysen. Slutsatsen är att hypotesen varken kan accepteras eller förkastas då undersökningen visat ett otydligt resultat. Ägarlägenheter kan medföra ett ökat antal nyproducerade bostäder i attraktiva områden men dessa lägenheter är förmodligen inte tillgängliga för alla då det krävs en stor kapitalinsats vid köpet. Även om man kan lyckas med att skapa en blandning av alla upplåtelseformer i ett område kan dessa boende visa sig vara lika dyra att bo i oavsett om det är ett köp- eller hyresboende. Man kan konstatera att en blandning av olika upplåtelseformer i samma stadsdel kan medföra en minskad etnisk segregation i ett område som till exempel Västra hamnen, där det bor välbärgade invånare med olika etniska bakgrunder men dessa människor tillhör samma socioekonomiska grupp. Däremot kan ägarlägenheter inte bidra till att minska den etniska segregationen i de utsatta områdena i Malmö. Även om man har kapital vill man hellre köpa en lägenhet i ett attraktivare område och enligt Malmö stad lämnar svenskar i alla inkomstklasser dessa utsatta områden. Man kan konstatera att om upplåtelseformen ägarlägenheter är möjlig i det befintliga fastighetsbeståndet kan det finnas en möjlighet att hålla kvar framgångsrika invandrare i utsatta områden då de är benägna att stanna kvar hos sina familjer och vänner men det är svårt att locka svenskar till att köpa dessa lägenheter och därför kan ägarlägenheter inte bidra till att minska den etniska boendesegregationen i de utsatta områdena i Malmö. / The introduction of a new form of housing tenure, condominium, is likely to take place on April 1, 2009. Many interesting questions have been raised concerning the new form of tenure and one of these questions is whether condominiums can decrease residential segregation in the most segregated areas of Sweden.The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether condominiums can decrease segregation in the city of Malmö. The starting point is an understanding of the problem of segregation in the city and how this may be affected by condominiums.The study is based on a qualitative method where we conducted six structured interviews with persons involved with housing issues in Malmö. We have a deductive approach as a starting point where the hypothesis “Condominiums can decrease segregation in Malmö” was formulated in order to answer our main study question. By using positivist methods, we have studied various statistics, but we see reality as a social construction and we used hermeneutics when carrying out our analysis. The conclusion is that the hypothesis can be neither confirmed nor disproved since the results are inconclusive. Condominiums may lead to an increased number of newly constructed buildings for housing in attractive areas, but these apartments may not be available to everyone since they require a major capital investment. Even if a mixture of forms of tenure is achieved in an area, these housings may turn out to be equally expensive, regardless of whether they are rented or owned by the residents. A mixture of forms of tenure may decrease residential segregation in a city area such as Västra hamnen, with wealthy inhabitants from varying ethnic backgrounds. However, these inhabitants belong to the same socio-economic group. But condominiums cannot decrease residential segregation in the most segregated areas of Malmö. Persons with sufficient capital would rather acquire apartments in attractive areas and according to the city of Malmö, Swedes from all income classes are leaving these segregated areas. If condominium as an ownership of housing is available for the existing building there may be a chance of keeping successful immigrants in segregated areas since they are likely to stay with families and friends, but it is difficult to attract Swedes to acquire these apartments, and therefore condominiums as a form of tenure cannot lead to a decreased the ethnic residential segregation in the most segregated areas of Malmö.

This paper discusses the issue of residential segregation in Halmstad, a municipality in western Sweden. The inhabitants themselves say that it is one of the most segregated municipalities in the country and the growing segregation is affecting the community in various ways, particularly in the housing market, where increased segregation has resulted in decreased quality and safety in these areas, as well as decreased cohesion between different areas in the municipality. The paper aims to explain the forms of residential segregation in society using four theories: The planning hypothesis, market hypothesis, status hypothesis, and contact hypothesis. The research method used is the case study method, which is suitable for analyzing a “case” of broader phenomenon. One method that has been considered appropriate within the case study literature for testing theories, as this study does, is pattern matching, also known as congruence matching. This method tests the extent of which the empirical pattern matches the hypothetical pattern that the theory assumes. If there is lack of congruence between the empirical pattern and the theoretically assumed pattern, the result speak against the theoretical hypothesis. If the congruence is found, the theoretical hypothesis is supported. The planning hypothesis could confirm that the municipality ́s planning has had segregated effects and the efforts have not been sufficient to counteract residential segregation. The market hypothesis could not be confirmed because the housing market is not governed by market rents. The paper also found patterns that strengthened the status hypothesis. Partly by finding material that shows that Halmstad is a polarized municipality with areas that have lower status than others. Lastly, the contact hypothesis could partly be confirmed by looking at increased family immigration.