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1988 - Does School Desegregation Policy Stimulate Residential Integration?

Attribution: Clark, William
Researchers: William Clark
University Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles
Email: wclark@geog.ucla.edu
Research Question:
Relationship between schools and housing and specifically the relocation behavior of minority households.
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: Urban Education
Journal Entry: Vol. 23, No.1, pp. 51-67
Year: 1988
Findings:
  • It is the combination of demographic processes and population responses to policy interventions (busing) that are at the heart of understanding changes in pupil enrollment.
  • School desegregation policy per se did not contribute to residential integration.
  • The patterns of moves are not distinguishable from the natural transition of moves into surrounding white neighborhoods that occurs when Black areas expand into surrounding neighborhoods.
  • There is little if any direct relationship between student assignments and household relocation behavior.
  • It is not even clear that racially balanced schools can stimulate racially balanced neighborhoods.
Keywords: BusingDemographic TrendsDesegregationHousingResidential SegregationSegregationRegions: SouthMethodologies: QuantitativeAnalysis Methods: Spatial Analysis Sampling Frame:School District
Sampling Types: NonrandomAnalysis Units: School DistrictData Types: Quantitative-Longitudinal
Data Description:
  • Census data on metropolitan change plus some unusual data on the actual relocation behavior of Black households in Oklahoma Independent School District
  • Demographic information and policy intervention information as well as enrollment.
  • Compute index of dissimilarities. Indices of separation for the beginning and end points of the spatial change.
  • The methodology of the analysis is not very clear.
  • DV: Residential relocation and segregation
  • IV: School desegregation efforts, busing
Theoretical Framework:
Relevance:
Archives: K-12 Integration, Desegregation, and Segregation Abstracts
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