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Suburbs are home to almost half of all Americans and have undergone dramatic demographic shifts over the past twenty years. The share of Black Americans living in suburbs has increased while the percentage of Whites has declined. More than one-third of poor families live in suburbs, as well as nearly half of Latinx Americans and a majority of Asian Americans and immigrant Americans. Yet suburbs remain understudied, and we know little about the changes taking place. The fifteen articles in this double issue explore the evolution of the suburbs, growing suburban inequality, and how inequality develops within and between suburban communities. Together, they shed light on the nature, causes, and consequences of an increasingly unequal United States. Issue 1 examines the diversification of suburbs as well as inequality in suburban housing. Issue 2 focuses on suburban schools, how community institutions function in suburban areas, and suburban politics.


RSF Journal  

Suburban Inequality

Volume 9, Issues 1 and 2

Edited by
R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, New York University 
Natasha Warikoo, Tufts University
Stephen A. Matthews, Pennsylvania State University

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Articles

Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality
R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, Natasha Warikoo, Stephen A. Matthews, and Nadirah Farah Foley
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Issue 1

Part I. Changing Suburbs

Racial Diversity and Segregation: Comparing Principal Cities, Inner-Ring Suburbs, Outlying Suburbs, and the Suburban Fringe
Daniel T. Lichter, Brian C. Thiede, and Matthew M. Brooks
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New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York
Kasey Zapatka and Van C. Tran
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Part II. Housing

Intersectionality Matters: Black Women, Labor, and Households in Black Suburbia
Orly Clergé
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The Suburbanization of Eviction: Increasing Displacement and Inequality Within American Suburbs
Devin Q. Rutan, Peter Hepburn, and Matthew Desmond
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Getting Suburbs to Do Their Fair Share: Housing Exclusion and Local Response to State Interventions
Jennifer Girouard
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Issue 2

Part III. Education

Little Boxes All the Same? Racial-Ethnic Segregation and Educational Inequality Across the Urban-Suburban Divide
Ann Owens and Peter Rich
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The Not-So-New South Suburbs: Asian Immigration and the Politics of School Integration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Willow Lung-Amam
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Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010
Erica Frankenberg, Christopher S. Fowler, Sarah Asson, and Ruth Krebs Buck
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Finding Integrated Schools? Latino Families Settle in Diverse Suburbs, 2000–2015
Shruti Bathia, Bruce Fuller, Claudia Galindo, Francisco Lagos, and Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
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Part IV. Organizations

Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets
Scott W. Allard and Elizabeth Pelletier
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Police Killings and Municipal Reliance on Fine-and-Fee Revenue
Brenden Beck
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Part V. Politics

Not Just White Soccer Moms: Voting in Suburbia in the 2016 and 2020 Elections
Ankit Rastogi and Michael Jones-Correa
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Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K–12 Schools and Other Public Services
Angela Simms
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Suburbs, Inc.: Exploring Municipal Incorporation as a Mechanism of Racial and Economic Exclusion in Suburban Communities
Kiara Wyndham-Douds 
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