Is Neighborhood Racial Succession Inevitable?
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Urban Affairs Quarterly
- Vol. 26 (4) , 610-620
- https://doi.org/10.1177/004208169102600409
Abstract
Analysis of compositional changes in the racially mixed neighborhoods (tracts) of 5 large U.S. cities over a 40-year period casts doubt on a central notion of the invasion-succession model: that white-to-black change (succession) is inevitable. The findings indicate that (1) the likelihood of racial succession decreased in all 5 cities from 1970 to 1980, relative to earlier decades, (2) the likelihood of racial stability increased in 4 of the 5 cities during the 1970s, and (3) marked variation exists in patterns of racial change across the cities and decades surveyed. Regional comparisons using 1940-1980 tract data for 38 additional cities strengthen the conclusions based on the 5 case-study locations.Keywords
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