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DATE: THURSDAY, March 29, 1990                   TAG: 9003290516
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

STUDY: BLACKS UNABLE TO LEAVE INNER CITIES

A new study challenges the theory that the increased concentration of poverty in inner-city neighborhoods is the result of a mass flight of the black middle class.

The study found that most upper-income black families have been unable to escape inner-city neighborhoods because of housing discrimination. As a result, both high- and low-income blacks tend to live in proximity in major cities.

"Housing is one area where discrimination and segregation have persisted," said the authors, Douglas Massey and Mitchell Eggers in an article in the current American Journal of Sociology.

- The Washington Post 


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