School district fragmentation and racial residential segregation: How do boundaries matter?

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 182-217

  Bischoff, Kendra ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Racial segregation; Residential sorting; School districts

Indexed keywords

FRAGMENTATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; RACIAL SEGREGATION; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; URBAN POLITICS; URBAN SOCIETY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54049089257     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087408320651     Document Type: Article

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