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New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York

Kasey Zapatka, Van C. Tran
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2023, 9 (1) 52-83; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.1.03
Kasey Zapatka
aPhD candidate in sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States
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Van C. Tran
bAssociate professor of sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States
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    • SUBURBS AS NEW FRONTIERS OF INTEGRATION
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