White Entry into Black Neighborhoods

Lance Freeman and Tiancheng Cai

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015, vol. 660, issue 1, 302-318

Abstract: This article considers whites’ entry into black neighborhoods. The historical review in the first part of the article shows such entry to have been exceedingly rare during the twentieth century. Our analysis of trends in white entry into black neighborhoods for the period 1980–2010 documents a substantial increase in white entry for the 2000–10 decade. We speculate that the increase in white entry into black neighborhoods was due to declining racism among whites and dramatically declining crime rates in the 1990s. We also use multivariate regression to explain which black neighborhoods were most likely to experience an influx of whites. Factors associated with gentrification appear to offer the most promising explanations. We discuss the implications of these findings in the conclusion.

Keywords: segregation; gentrification; neighborhood change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716215578425

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