Racial Bias and Interstate Highway Planning: A Mixed Methods Approach

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CUREJ - College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal
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highways
racial bias
prejudice
racism
mixed methods
quantitative
qualitative
mapping
Political Science
Adolph Reed
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Adolph
American Politics
Infrastructure
Transportation
Urban Studies
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This paper is an analysis of highway alignments based on the census tracts that surround them. First, I perform a quantitative analysis of the tracts with highways and the percentage of non-white and African-Americans in these tracts as opposed to in the state and region in general. In areas where the T-Tests noted a significant difference, a case study approach was employed to conjecture as to the reasoning for these suspect alignments.

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2014-01-01
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