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The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods Since Kerner

Marcus D. Casey, Bradley L. Hardy
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2018, 4 (6) 185-205; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.09
Marcus D. Casey
aDavid M. Rubenstein Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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bAssociate professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University
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