The Dream Revisited: Residential Income Segregation
Launched on Martin Luther King Jr. Day earlier this year, The Dream Revisited is a “slow debate” on the causes and consequences of racial and economic segregation in neighborhoods and schools. It is presented as part of the Furman Center’s year-long Integration Research Initiative.
The ninth discussion in The Dream Revisited analyzes segregation by income and debates the significance of the increasing isolation of the affluent. Essays in this discussion include:
- “No Neighborhood is an Island” by Sean F. Reardon, endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and Director of the Stanford Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Program in Quantitative Education Policy Analysis, and Kendra Bischoff, assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University
- “The Durable Architecture of Segregation” by Paul A. Jargowsky, professor of public policy at Rutgers University and director of the Center for Urban Research and Urban Education
- “Keep Concentrated Poverty at the Forefront “ by Michael Lens, assistant professor of urban planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles
- “Spread the Wealth, or Spread the Wealthy?” by Lee Fennell, Max Pam Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School
Share your questions and reactions to the essays on Twitter via the hashtag #TheDreamRevisited.
If you have any comments or suggestions for future discussions, send us an email to fccommunications@nyu.com
The Dream Revisited will feature a new discussion each month for the entire year. At the conclusion of project in 2014, the debates will be digitally archived. The Dream Revisited is presented as part of the NYU Furman Center's Integration Research Initiative and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
