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Lopata, Helena Znaniecka – 1980
Social, economic, and cultural factors that historically have limited the housing choices of southern and eastern European immigrants to the United States and have influenced the development of ethnic neighborhoods in American cities are reviewed in this paper. Difficulties that non English speaking, relatively uneducated immigrants had in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Ethnic Discrimination, Ethnic Groups, Family Life
Lewis, James H. – 1991
This conference paper discusses the current situation of racial differences in housing in the Chicago (Illinois) area with regard to the ramifications of the "Miliken v. Bradley" (1974) case. The Miliken case closed the door on busing and school desegregation plans crossing school district lines and in many cases, crossing municipal…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Population Trends, Civil Rights, Economic Development
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Kaufman, Julie E.; Rosenbaum, James E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1992
Education and employment outcomes are examined for African-American youth in Chicago (Illinois) whose families moved from mostly African-American urban housing projects to mostly white suburbs or mostly African-American urban areas. The suburban youth's achievement was at least as good as and sometimes better than that of their urban counterparts.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Black Youth, Educational Attainment
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Martin, Kacy – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The racial achievement gap has persisted in the decades since "Brown v. Board," despite large-scale investment in school reform. Accordingly, some administrators and politicians are reconsidering integration policies as a means of addressing the gap. This study examines one Chicago community's discussion of such integration policy.…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parent Attitudes, School Desegregation, Educational Policy
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Betancur, John J. – Social Forces, 1996
Describes Latino settlement in Chicago, 1910-90. Latino immigration (frequently "importation" of low-skill, low-wage workers) reflects U.S. domination of Latin America; consequent Latino vulnerability and low status allow real estate speculation exploiting their quasi-racial status through exclusion and market manipulation. Questions…
Descriptors: Blacks, Ethnic Discrimination, Housing Discrimination, Immigrants
Orfield, Gary; Gaebler, Ken – 1991
This paper is the first in a series of reports on racial patterns in the 1990 Census, and it discusses and provides statistical data on Black and Latino segregation in Chicago (Illinois) and its metropolitan area. Computations for this report were conducted at the Chicago Urban League Research and Planning Department. One table lists the Black to…
Descriptors: Black Population Trends, Census Figures, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Distribution