Discusses three articles which document the interaction of physical and social components that stratify cities by race and cites differences in family size, work time, and expectations from a move that affect differences in perceptions and behavior between black suburbanites and white gentrifiers. (Author/LHW)

This book reports the results of a study on the characteristics of racially integrated neighborhoods in an attempt to discover whether, and under what conditions, blacks and whites can live together. The communities studied had anywhere from one or two black families to more than ten percent. Integrated rural areas mostly in the South were not…

Blacks who bought homes in a suburb of Washington, D.C., were considerably less politically active than whites who gentrified the central city, in spite of the fact that both groups were well educated and middle class. Neighborhood conditions, perception of racial relations, and previous place of residence were important predictors of…