Little Boxes All the Same? Racial-Ethnic Segregation and Educational Inequality across the Urban-Suburban Divide

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Suburbs were once a haven for advantaged, White families to avoid city life and access high-status schools. This urban-suburban divide, however, has changed in recent decades as suburban communities (and their school districts) have diversified. This study provides an updated cross-sectional portrait of recent racial-ethnic segregation and inequality between and within urban and suburban school districts in U.S. metropolitan areas. We find that the urban-suburban divide remains an important stratifying force—a substantial portion of racial-ethnic residential and school segregation, as well as racial-ethnic inequality in school poverty and test scores, occurs between urban and suburban school districts. Significant segregation and inequality also occur between and within suburban school districts. Suburban stratification is a key feature of the geography of inequality, warranting theoretical and methodological attention.

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Owens, A., & Rich, P. (2023). Little Boxes All the Same? Racial-Ethnic Segregation and Educational Inequality across the Urban-Suburban Divide. RSF, 9(2), 26–54. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.02

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