A New Look at Ethnic Neighborhoods: Residential Dispersion and the Concept of Visibility in a Medium-Sized City.

Chudacoff, Howard P.

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Publication Date: 1973

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A New Look at Ethnic Neighborhoods: Residential Dispersion and the Concept of Visibility in a Medium-Sized City

Chudacoff, Howard P.

Journal of American History, 60, 1, 76-93, Jun 73

Case study focuses on Omaha, Nebraska, between the years of 1880 and 1920, where closer examination of ethnic residential patterns have established that around the turn of the century, clustering of national groups did not exist in degrees as strong as assumptions about the American ghetto'' suggest. (RJ)

Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Studies, Ghettos, Housing Discrimination, Poverty, Poverty Areas, Residential Patterns, Urban Problems

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Identifiers - Location: Nebraska; Nebraska (Omaha)

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