Community Resources in a Diverse City: Supermarket Location and Emerging Racial Hierarchies

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• 作者：Heather A. O’Connell ; Lester King ; Jenifer L. Bratter
• 关键词：Spatial inequality ; Racial/ethnic composition ; Hierarchies ; Social stratification ; Supermarkets
• 刊名：Race and Social Problems
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：4
• 页码：281-295
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• 刊物主题：Social Work; Personality and Social Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1867-1756
• 卷排序：8

文摘

Disparities are pronounced along racial/ethnic lines in the USA. Convention draws our attention to blacks and whites, but increased racial/ethnic diversity in the USA requires shifts in that focus. We contribute to studies of racial/ethnic stratification by interrogating the association between racial/ethnic composition and supermarket location in Houston, Texas. First, we assess the benefits of a new approach to defining the racial/ethnic composition of local areas, an approach that acknowledges an increasingly complex racial/ethnic demography. Second, we contribute to our understanding of emerging racial/ethnic stratification hierarchies by examining the position of the racial/ethnic composition categories relative to one another. Our results suggest a persistent link between racial/ethnic composition and supermarket location, which highlights entrenched black disadvantage coupled with malleable middle positions for Hispanic areas. The associated stratification hierarchy is gradual in nature, yet there is evidence supporting arguments that the USA is moving toward a tri-racial system.