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来源

CITY & COMMUNITY,Vol.17,Issue3,P.835-857

语言

英文

关键字

RESIDENTIAL-MOBILITY; DECISION-MAKING; SEGREGATION; BLACKS; CHOICE; GENTRIFICATION; CONSTRAINTS; PREFERENCES; PERSISTENT; INEQUALITY

作者单位

[Taplin-Kaguru, Nora E.] Earlham Coll, Richmond, IN USA. Taplin-Kaguru, NE (reprint author), Earlham Coll, Dept Sociol Anthropol, 801 Natl Rd West, Richmond, IN 47374 USA. E-Mail: taplino@earlham.edu

摘要

While many scholars have demonstrated that entrenched racial residential segregation perpetuates racial inequality, the causes of persistent racial segregation continue to be debated. This paper investigates how geographically and socioeconomically mobile African Americans approach the home-buying process in the context of a segregated metropolitan region, by using qualitative interviews with working-class to middle-income African American aspiring homebuyers. Homebuyers use three principal search strategies to determine suitable neighborhoods: avoiding decline, searching for improvement, and searching for stability. The findings suggest that despite these strategies African American homebuyers end up in areas that may not retain characteristics they desire in terms of racial demographics and amenities, in large part because such neighborhoods remain rare.