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Great American City

Anthony M. Orum
- 01 Jun 2014 - 
- Vol. 29, Iss: 2, pp 504-507
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Urban mobility and neighborhood isolation in America's 50 largest cities

TL;DR: A test of neighborhood isolation is developed that improves on static measures derived from commonly used census reports by leveraging fine-grained dynamic data on the everyday movement of residents in America’s 50 largest cities.
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Segregation in Post-Civil Rights America: Stalled Integration or End of the Segregated Century?

TL;DR: Multivariate analyses reveal that minority segregation and spatial isolation are actively produced in some areas by restrictive density zoning regimes, large and/or rising minority percentages, lagging minority socioeconomic status, and active expressions of anti-Black and anti-Latino sentiment, especially in large metropolitan areas.
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Neighbourhood effects and beyond: Explaining the paradoxes of inequality in the changing American metropolis:

TL;DR: For example, American cities today are simultaneously the same and different from Wilson's classic portrayal in The Truly Disadvantaged ([1987] 2012), first published over 30 years ago.
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Serial Filing: How Landlords use the Threat of Eviction:

TL;DR: While recent research has illustrated the frequency and deleterious consequences of eviction, the number of executed evictions pales in comparison to the many poor families threatened with eviction as discussed by the authors.
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The Ethical Dilemmas and Social Scientific Trade-Offs of Masking in Ethnography.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that masking can reify ethnographic authority, exaggerate the universality of the case, and inhibit replicability (or revisits) and sociologica, highlighting potential ethical dilemmas and obstacles to constructing cumulative social science that can arise through masking.
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