– February 5, 2014Posted in: Uncategorized

The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. “The Changing Racial and Ethnic Makeup of NYC Neighborhoods.” May 2012.

Presented in class by Prof CB on Wednesday, 2014-02-05.

Abstract from http://furmancenter.org/research/publications/c/data-briefs:

This analysis from the 2011 State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods report finds that 28 percent of the city’s census tracts were racially integrated in 2010, up from 22 percent of tracts in 1990. The percentage of neighborhoods that are mixed-minority also rose, from 17 percent of all tracts in 1990 to 24 percent in 2010. Meanwhile, the share of neighborhoods that are majority white declined sharply, from 40 percent of all census tracts in the city to 23 percent.

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About Ben Miller

Benjamin Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in the English department of the CUNY Graduate Center, where he has completed all requirements for the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy certificate program. His dissertation will use distant reading techniques to examine the dynamics of research- and discourse communities within recent doctoral-level scholarship in composition and rhetoric.