Municipal Boundaries in a Discriminatory Housing Market: An Example of Racial Leapfrogging

Jonathan M. Rich
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Jonathan M. Rich: School of Law, Columbia University

Urban Studies, 1984, vol. 21, issue 1, 31-40

Abstract: Racial 'leapfrogging' occurs when some blacks settle farther from the urban core and inner city ghettos than some whites. Previously, this phenomenon has only been discussed as a theoretical possibility by Courant and Rose-Ackerman. This article gives evidence of leapfrogging across a municipal boundary under circumstances somewhat similar to those of the Rose-Ackerman model. However, the cause of the leapfrogging is less organized than that posited by Rose-Ackerman. Blacks jumped over more affluent whites in the inner city to a nearby suburb because they were discouraged by racial prejudice from locating in white neighborhoods in the central city and because the neighboring community has better schools and less crime.

Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1080/00420988420080031

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