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Segregation as a Source of Contextual Advantage: A Formal Theory with Application to American Cities

Lincoln Quillian
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2017, 3 (2) 152-169; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.07
Lincoln Quillian
aProfessor of sociology at Northwestern University and chair of the Institute for Policy Research’s Program on Urban Policy and Community Development
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