Connecting Across the Divides of Race/Ethnicity: How Does Segregation Matter?

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 531-558

  Gibbons, Joseph ^a   Yang, Tse Chuan ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

community connection; diversity; local organizations; Philadelphia; segregation

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; RACE; RACIAL SEGREGATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN SOCIETY;

PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84977139314     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087415589193     Document Type: Article

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