Three Papers on Ethno-Racial Stratification in Neighborhood Attainment

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Sociology
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2024
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Azeez, Abiodun
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While studies of locational attainment have examined residential disparities among larger ethno-racial groups, there has been a lack of research on the residential characteristics of smaller segments of these groups at various social intersections and interconnections. Yet the outcomes of these less-studied segments, covering different levels of social status, can offer more nuanced insight into the system of racial residential stratification. This dissertation contributes to this research by exploring neighborhood attainment among three small, relatively understudied populations. Using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data, the first paper examines neighborhood racial and economic characteristics of interracial and monoracial couple households, with attention to the extent to which interracial couples—differentiated by the race-gender combination of each pairing—mirror the residential patterns typically observed among monoracial households. The study reveals both conformity to and subversion of the predicted order of neighborhood attainment, with the biggest locational advantages observed among interracially paired Blacks and Hispanics relative to their monoracially-paired co-ethnics. The second paper, relying on multiple waves of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Data (SEPA HSS) data, investigates the neighborhood characteristics of queer and straight White and ethno-racial minority households to determine whether queer ethno-racial minorities experience heightened residential disadvantage at the intersection of their dual minority status. The results of this study show that in some ways they do, with the greatest within-race, straight-queer neighborhood disparities occurring among Asians and Hispanics and least among Whites (because of prevailing racial privilege) and Blacks (because of prevailing racial disadvantage). The third paper, employing 2013 American Housing Survey (AHS) data, compares the neighborhood physical conditions of affluent households in the suburbs to identify whether any ethno-racial residential disparities among them are reduced or eliminated compared to conditions within urban contexts. The results are consistent with the ethno-racial hierarchy of neighborhood attainment, demonstrating that affluence and suburbanization are not sufficient to achieve residential equality between groups. Overall, the findings of this dissertation highlight that, although some deviations occur, neighborhood outcomes differentiated by joint racial and other social statuses generally conform to expected and prevailing patterns of residential stratification.

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Flippen, Chenoa
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2024
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