The Historical Demography of Racial Segregation

• Published in: American sociological review Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 814 - 842
• Main Authors: Grigoryeva, Angelina, Ruef, Martin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA American Sociological Association (ASA) 01.08.2015; SAGE Publications; American Sociological Association
• Subjects: 19th century; African Americans; Black people; Census; Censuses; Cities; Demographers; Demographics; Demography; Ethnography; Figure ground; Inequality; Neighborhoods; Racial Segregation; Racism; Residential Segregation; Segregation; Slavery; Social research; Southern States; Streets; United States of America; Urban areas; Urban population; White people; United States > US; residential segregation; race; historical demography; measures of segregation

Standard measures of residential segregation tend to equate spatial with social proximity. This assumption has been increasingly subject to critique among demographers and ethnographers and becomes especially problematic in historical settings. In the late nineteenth-century United States, standard...