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Urban Neighborhoods and the Persistence of Racial Inequality
Patrick SharkeyNew York University
February 17, 2015
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Outline for the talk:
1) The end of progress toward racial equality
2) A multigenerational perspective on neighborhood inequality
3) The consequences of persistent neighborhood inequality
4) Implications for urban policy
5) A hopeful conclusion
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Outline for the talk:
1) The end of progress toward racial equality
2) A multigenerational perspective on neighborhood inequality
3) The consequences of persistent neighborhood inequality
4) Implications for urban policy
5) A hopeful conclusion
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The end of progress toward racial equality:
Family income
Pew Research, Social and Demographic Trends:http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/08/22/race-demographics/
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The end of progress toward racial equality:
Economic mobility
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The end of progress toward racial equality:
Absolute mobility
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Outline for the talk:
1) The end of progress toward racial equality
2) A multigenerational perspective on neighborhood inequality
3) The consequences of persistent neighborhood inequality
4) Implications for urban policy
5) A hopeful conclusion
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Continuity in racialized neighborhood inequality
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Continuity in racialized neighborhood inequality
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Sharkey 2008. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Context.” American Journal of Sociology.
% of all parent/child pairs living in poor neighborhoods over consecutive generations
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Sharkey 2008. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Context.” American Journal of Sociology.
% of individuals in poor neighborhoods whose parent was also raised in a poor neighborhood
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Outline for the talk:
1) The end of progress toward racial equality
2) A multigenerational perspective on neighborhood inequality
3) The consequences of persistent neighborhood inequality
4) Implications for urban policy
5) A hopeful conclusion
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CHILD’S DEVELOPMENT
CHILD’S NEIGHBORHOOD
SchoolExposure to violence
PeersMental health
Standard theoretical model of “neighborhood effects”
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CHILD’S DEVELOPMENT
CHILD’S NEIGHBORHOOD
SchoolExposure to violence
PeersMental health
Multigenerational model of “neighborhood effects”
EducationOccupation
IncomeMental health
Parenting style
PARENT’S NEIGHBORHOOD
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The consequences of multigenerational neighborhood disadvantage: Economic mobility
Sharkey 2009. “Neighborhoods and the black-white mobility gap.” Economic Mobility Project.
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Sharkey, Stuck In Place.
The consequences of multigenerational neighborhood disadvantage: Educational aspirations
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Sharkey and Elwert. 2011. “The Legacy of Disadvantage: Multigenerational Neighborhood Effects on Cognitive Ability.” American Journal of Sociology.
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The consequences of multigenerational neighborhood disadvantage: Cognitive skills
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Outline for the talk:
1) The end of progress toward racial equality
2) A multigenerational perspective on neighborhood inequality
3) The consequences of persistent neighborhood inequality
4) Implications for urban policy
5) A hopeful conclusion
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Policy with the capacity to:
• Disrupt multigenerational patterns of neighborhood inequality
• Generate transformative changes in places and in families’lives
• Confront neighborhood inequality on a national scale and withstand fluctuations in the political mood and the business cycle
“Durable urban policy”
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What does “durable” mobility look like? Gautreaux and Moving to Opportunity
Sampson 2010. “Moving to Inequality: Neighborhood Effects and Experiments Meet Social Structure.” American Journal of Sociology.
Map from DeLuca and Rosenblatt (2008). “Can poor black families escape segregated neighborhoods?”
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Keels et al. 2005. “Fifteen years later: Can residential mobility programs provide a long-term escape from neighborhood segregation, crime, and poverty?” Demography.
The long-term impact of Gautreaux on participating families’ neighborhoods
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The structure of residential mobility in Chicago: Evidence from MTO
Sampson 2010. “Moving to Inequality: Neighborhood Effects and Experiments Meet Social Structure.” American Journal of Sociology.
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The long-term impact of MTO on participating families’ neighborhoods
Ludwig et al. 2012. “Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults.” Science.
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What does “durable” investment look like? Purpose Built Communities
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What does “durable” investment look like? Harlem Children’s Zone
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What does “durable” policy look like? Inclusionary Zoning
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• Mobility policies that promote dramatic, sustained changes in families’ environments– Example: Gautreaux; Baltimore Mobility Program
“Durable urban policy”
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• Investments that reach multiple generations– Examples: New Hope (Milwaukee); Harlem Children’s Zone
“Durable urban policy”
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• Investments with the potential to create permanent or transformative change in communities– Example: Mandatory inclusionary zoning; Purpose Built
Communities
“Durable urban policy”
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• Investments/programs/policies implemented on a national scale with the potential to withstand shifts in economy and political mood– Example: ?
“Durable urban policy”
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Outline for the talk:
1) The end of progress toward racial equality
2) A multigenerational perspective on neighborhood inequality
3) The consequences of persistent neighborhood inequality
4) Implications for urban policy
5) A hopeful conclusion
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• Since the early 1970s, federal urban policy has been dominated by a narrative linking cities/race/violence
• The Great American Crime Decline has weakened these connections and opened space for a new model of urban policy
Our nation’s urban policy agenda
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Violence has dropped the most in the most violent cities
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City Time Period Absolute Change Relative Change
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Chicago 2001-2012 -109.67 -32.31 -28.92 -32.57
Cleveland 1990-2010 -175.83 19.27 -43.28 18.39
Denver 1990-2010 -95.42 -10.77 -47.54 -20.32
Philadelphia 1998-2009 -62.65 -2.00 -22.91 -2.95
Seattle 1996-2007 -67.32 -10.47 -28.54 -23.80
St. Petersburg 2000-2012 -202.31 -41.31 -42.94 -46.72
Violence has dropped the most in the most violent neighborhoods
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Violence has dropped the most in the most violent neighborhoods
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Chicago
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• Since the early 1970s, federal urban policy has been dominated by a narrative linking cities/race/violence
• The Great American Crime Decline has weakened these connections and opened space for a new model of urban policy
The central question is:
What will the next model of urban policy look like?
Our nation’s urban policy agenda
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Thanks to Richard Parks, Gary Painter and Jessica Booker for invitation and organization of the visit.
Thanks also to:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
William T. Grant Foundation