A distance-based analysis of urban segregation in the American Southwest /

dc.contributor.authorHrebec, Dennis J.,en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-16T12:28:59Z
dc.date.available2013-08-16T12:28:59Z
dc.date.issued1983en_US
dc.description.abstractUrbanized areas of the Southwest were highly variable in terms of population size, population composition, and net migration, and historical circumstances were important in shaping some urban residential patterns. Cross-sectional comparisons indicated that whites versus Blacks were the most segregated group, and whites versus Mexicans were the least segregated group. Temporal comparisons revealed that: (1) white versus Black segregation changed for individual cities, but an overall trend was not discernible, (2) white versus Mexican segregation declined consistently throughout the study area, and (3) Black versus Mexican-American segregation declined on the average, but individual cities were highly variable.en_US
dc.description.abstractResidential segregation was analyzed for selected urbanized areas of the Southwest for 1960 and 1970. The objectives of the study were: (1) to select the most appropriate segregation index from among three available indexes, (2) to measure the degree of residential segregation between whites and Blacks, whites and Mexican-Americans, and Blacks and Mexican-Americans, (3) to make cross-sectional and temporal comparisons for thirty-four urbanized areas, and (4) to relate the degree of segregation to other socio-economic variables.en_US
dc.description.abstractMultiple regression analysis produced one multi-variable model that was useful in predicting segregation. Sixty-two percent of the variation in Black versus Mexican-American segregation was accounted for by this model, compared to forty-two percent for white versus Black segregation and twenty-seven percent for Black versus Mexican-American segregation. In the final analysis, residential segregation was best predicted by: income and education variables for whites versus Blacks, cultural variables for whites versus Mexican-Americans, and income and cultural variables for Blacks versus Mexican-Americans.en_US
dc.format.extentvii, 115 leaves :en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/5188
dc.noteSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-11, Section: A, page: 3492.en_US
dc.subjectGeography.en_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineDepartment of Geography and Environmental Sustainabilityen_US
dc.titleA distance-based analysis of urban segregation in the American Southwest /en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
ou.groupCollege of Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences::Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
ou.identifier(UMI)AAI8404556en_US

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