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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
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2023, 9 (2) 55-74; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.03
Willow Lung-Amam
aAssociate professor of urban studies and planning at the University of Maryland, College Park, United States, and director of community development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education and of the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network
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    Typical home in the Northside neighborhood.

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    Asian Americans in the Chapel Hill–Carrboro School District, 2010

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2010b.

    Note: Highlighting the percentage within the 74A section slated for redistricting and Northside neighborhood. The optimal way to view this figure is in color. We refer readers of the print edition of this article to https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/9/2/55 to view the color version.

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    The new Northside Elementary School under construction in the historic Northside neighborhood.

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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
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Feb 2023, 9 (2) 55-74; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.03
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    • THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION AND EDUCATION IN THE NEW SOUTH SUBURBS
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    • SEGREGATION AND IMMIGRATION IN A SOUTHERN TECHNO-ETHNOBURB
    • THE RACIAL POLITICS OF REDISTRICTING
    • CONCLUSION: SUBURBAN ALLIANCES AND SOUTHERN SOLIDARITIES
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