Since the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, researchers and
policy makers have paid close attention to trends in school segregation. Here we review the …

Inequalities among individuals and households in achieved socioeconomic status (income,
wealth, and so on) in the United States have reached levels not observed for almost a …

According to recent research, ethnoracial diversity negatively affects trust and social capital.
This article challenges the current conception and measurement of “diversity” and invites …

Significant disparities in CKD rates and outcomes exist between black and white Americans.
Health disparities are defined as health differences that adversely affect disadvantaged …

Homophily, the tendency for similar actors to be connected at a higher rate than dissimilar
actors, is a pervasive social fact. In this article, we examine changes over a 20-year period in …

This article documents a new macro-segregation, where the locus of racial differentiation
resides increasingly in socio-spatial processes at the community or place level. The goal is …

Persistent racial inequality in employment, housing, and a wide range of other social
domains has renewed interest in the possible role of discrimination. And yet, unlike in the …

More than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled, the majority of urban
neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The degree of social and …

The United States is an immigrant nation—nowhere is the truth of this statement more
evident than in its major cities. Immigrants and their children comprise nearly three-fifths of …

For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those
from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain …