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Episodes of racial conflict in Detroit form just one facet of the city's storied and legendary history, and they have sometimes overshadowed the less widely known but equally important occurrence of interracial cooperation in seeking solutions to the city's problems. The conflicts also present many opportunities to analyze, learn from, and interrogate the past in order to help lay the groundwork for a stronger, more equitable future. This astute and prudent history poses a number of critical questions: Why and where have race riots occurred in Detroit? How has the racial climate changed or remained the same since the riots? What efforts have occurred since the riots to reduce racial inequality and conflicts, and to build bridges across racial divides? Unique among books on the subject,Detroitpays special attention to post-1967 social and political developments in the city, and expands upon the much-explored black-white dynamic to address the influx of more recent populations to Detroit: Middle Eastern Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. Crucially, the book explores the role of place of residence, spatial mobility, and spatial inequality as key factors in determining access to opportunities such as housing, education, employment, and other amenities, both in the suburbs and in the city.

In the United States, there is a growing interest in understanding heat stress in lower-income and racially isolated neighborhoods. This study spatially identifies heat-vulnerable neighborhoods, evaluates the relationship between race/ethnicity and temperature exposure, and emphasizes differences among Hispanics by origin to capture environmental injustices in Santa Clara County (SCC), CA. The current methodology uses Landsat 8 via Google Earth Engine to measure the Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to assess the physical environment. The human environment is evaluated using the Modified Darden-Kamel Composite Socioeconomic Index to determine the spatial variability of socioeconomic status (SES) and the Index of Dissimilarity to determine the level of segregation between Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites and among Hispanics/Latinos. The combination of these assessments comprises a comprehensive human–environment approach for health exposure evaluation by which to define environmental injustice. Results reveal socioeconomic inequalities and an uneven residential distribution between Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites. Low NDVI and high LST values were found in Mexican neighborhoods, implying possible environmental racism. Almost half the Mexican population lives in highly segregated neighborhoods with low and very low SES, mainly located in East San Jose, where, historically, they have been ghettoized. Mexicans, in general, could be at a higher risk of heat stress and heat mortality during heat waves. Future work should examine additional variables (e.g., housing characteristics, crime, social cohesion, and collective behaviors) to comprehensively evaluate the at-risk Mexican population.

This study uses a new approach to assess the impact of different neighborhood characteristics on blood lead levels (BLLs) of black versus white children in metropolitan Detroit. Data were obtained from the Michigan Department of Community Health and the US Bureau of the Census American Community Survey. The Modified Darden-Kamel Composite Socioeconomic Index, bivariate regression, and the index of dissimilarity were used to compute neighborhood BLL unevenness by neighborhood characteristics. Neighborhoods with lower socioeconomic characteristics and high racial residential segregation predicted higher average childhood BLLs. This reveals a social spatial structure that will aid researchers/policymakers in better understanding disparities in childhood BLLs.

Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America. Drawing on the work of social scientists from geographic, historical, sociological, and political science perspectives, this volume offers new perspectives on the African Diaspora in the United States and Canada. It has been approximately four centuries since the first Africans set foot in North America, and although it is impossible for any text to capture the complete Black experience on the continent, the persistent legacy of Black inequality and the winds of dramatic change are inseparable parts of the current African Diaspora experience. In addition to comparing and contrasting the experiences and geographic patterns of the African Diaspora in the United States and Canada, the book also explores important distinctions between the experiences of African Americans and those of more recent African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants.

Objectives: From 2000 to 2010, the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded 37 state health departments to address the obesity epidemic in their states through various interventions. The objective of this study was to investigate the overall impacts of CDC-DNPAO statewide intervention programs on adult obesity prevalence in the United States. Methods: We used a set of an individual-level, interrupted time-series regression and a quasi-experimental analysis to evaluate the overall effect of CDC-DNPAO intervention programs before (1998-1999) and after (2010) their implementation by using data from CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Results: States that implemented the CDC-DNPAO program had a 2.4% to 3.8% reduction in the odds of obesity during 2000-2010 compared with states without the program. The effect of the CDC-DNPAO program varied by length of program implementation. A quasi-experimental analysis found that states with longer program implementation did not necessarily have lower odds of obesity than states with shorter program implementation. Conclusions: Statewide obesity interventions can contribute to reduced odds of obesity in the United States. Future research should evaluate the CDC-DNPAO programs in relation to their goals, objectives, and other environmental obesity risk factors to inform future interventions.

This study examines the early effects of seven scattered-site public housing developments on the receiving neighborhoods in Yonkers, New York, where opposition to court-ordered desegregation was particularly hostile over the last decade. Because people keep their neighborhoods strong by investing in them-financially, to be sure, but in other ways as well-we use a unique, two-part analysis to examine effects of public housing on neighborhood expectations, sense of community, and homeowner plans to move, as well as effects on sale prices of nearby homes over a twelve-year period. Happily, reports by homeowners showed no signs of neighborhood withdrawal or \"flight.\" Moreover, while effects on particular \"panic sales\" are certainly possible, none of the controversial sites show generalized effects on home prices.

The objective of this paper is to analyze homeownership rates for blacks & whites who are Canadian citizens. Data were obtained from The Public Use Microdata Files for Individuals (PUMFI) drawn from the 1996 Census provided by Statistics Canada. The impact of race is examined using logistic regression models & controlling for socioeconomic & demographic characteristics of the black & white population of the Toronto CMA. Findings reveal that race is a barrier to black homeownership even when blacks have the same socioeconomic & demographic characteristics as whites. The findings have implications for Canadian antidiscrimination housing policies. 3 Tables, 1 Appendix, 48 References. Adapted from the source document.

Briefly describes several approaches to multicultural education including highlighting minority achievements and emphasizing human relations and social reconstruction. Argues that social reconstruction is the most productive approach for teaching urban geography. Social reconstruction examines the creation and perpetuation of inequality through the relationships of cultural subjugation, political subjugation, and economic exploitation. (MJP)

Assesses the state of black residential segregation since the court case \"Shelley v. Kraemer.\" Focus is placed on metropolitan areas generally and on St. Louis and Detroit, in particular. It is concluded that blacks have made little progress in reducing segregation in housing since the 1948 court case that outlawed restrictive covenants on the basis of race or color. (GR)

This paper determines whether the level of black socioeconomic status is related to the level of black residential segregation in suburban Detroit. Data were obtained from the US Bureau of Census 1990 Summary Tape Files 1-A & analyzed on the census tract level. The method employed to measure residential segregation is the index of dissimilarity D. Findings revealed that blacks living in suburbs with socioeconomic status levels exceeding whites were not significantly less segregated residentially than blacks in other suburbs. Thus, the validity of ecological theory is questionable when applied to blacks who already reside in the suburbs. 6 Tables, 1 Figure, 77 References. Adapted from the source document.