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Table 6 describes residential patterns for Afro-Caribbeans in the
ten largest metropolitan areas for this population. Segregation from whites is very high in all of them, increasing
in some while declining in others.
Exposure to whites, however, varies greatly – from living in
neighborhoods that are less than a quarter white and majority black (New
York, Miami, and Newark) to living in neighborhoods where whites are as high
as 40% of the population (Boston, West Palm Beach, and Orlando). Segregation from African Americans is only
in the moderate range (35-45), indicating that Afro-Caribbeans’ neighborhoods
overlap substantially with those of African Americans. Segregation from Africans is substantially
higher, though it remains within the moderate range. New York is the one case where both
Afro-Caribbeans and Africans are present in large numbers and segregation
between these two groups is in the high range.
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Table 6. Segregation of the 10 metro regions with largest
Afro-Caribbean population in Census 2000
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Exposure to whites
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Segregation from whites
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Exposure to blacks
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Segregation from
African Americans
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Segregation from Africans
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1990
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2000
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1990
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2000
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1990
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2000
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1990
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2000
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1990
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2000
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New York, NY
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15.4
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11.8
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81.8
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82.7
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62.2
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64.0
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40.2
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39.2
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62.6
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57.7
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Miami, FL
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23.9
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15.0
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66.6
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68.1
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49.6
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54.1
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50.6
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47.3
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66.1
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59.0
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Fort Lauderdale, FL
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52.8
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36.6
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56.1
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57.2
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36.3
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43.6
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44.4
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34.6
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69.8
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67.5
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Boston, MA-NH
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42.7
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40.7
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76.4
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73.2
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42.8
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39.3
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41.3
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34.9
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63.4
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54.5
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Nassau-Suffolk, NY
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45.5
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36.7
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76.8
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75.2
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38.0
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38.7
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40.8
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36.4
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68.7
|
48.8
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Newark, NJ
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26.2
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22.9
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79.8
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78.0
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60.8
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60.0
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40.5
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37.8
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59.7
|
47.7
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West Palm Beach-Boca
Raton, FL
|
46.1
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47.3
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69.7
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60.2
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41.5
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34.6
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42.7
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44.0
|
83.0
|
74.4
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Washington,
DC-MD-VA-WV
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40.8
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34.6
|
67.0
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64.6
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43.0
|
43.3
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55.2
|
48.4
|
44.9
|
42.5
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Orlando, FL
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62.8
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42.4
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52.9
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58.1
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26.0
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32.6
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49.1
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40.2
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67.3
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65.4
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Atlanta, GA
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48.8
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36.2
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69.0
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61.8
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46.6
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52.3
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53.6
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39.8
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56.8
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48.2
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Table
7 shows segregation measures in the ten largest metropolitan areas for the
African-born. Exposure of Africans to
whites declined significantly in all ten regions, extremely low in New York
(17.0%), but near or above 50% only in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Boston, Dallas,
and Philadelphia. Segregation from
whites is in the high range in all cases, though falling in some of
them. At the same time, Africans’
exposure to blacks is growing, though it is much lower for Africans than for
Afro-Caribbeans.
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Table 7. Segregation of the 10 metro regions with
largest African-born population in Census 2000
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Exposure to whites
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Segregation from whites
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Exposure to blacks
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Segregation from African Americans
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Segregation from Afro-Caribbeans
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1990
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2000
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1990
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2000
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1990
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2000
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1990
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2000
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1990
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2000
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Washington,
DC-MD-VA-WV
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47.7
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37.5
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62.7
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63.1
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34.6
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36.7
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62.9
|
58.2
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44.9
|
42.5
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New York, NY
|
29.9
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17.0
|
71.6
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78.0
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38.4
|
47.0
|
62.1
|
48.5
|
62.6
|
57.7
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Atlanta, GA
|
53.1
|
39.4
|
67.2
|
63.6
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39.7
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43.2
|
57.4
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54.0
|
56.8
|
48.2
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Minneapolis-St. Paul,
MN-WI
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78.0
|
59.2
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73.0
|
68.4
|
11.2
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21.9
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66.1
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50.0
|
79.3
|
73.5
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Los Angeles-Long
Beach, CA
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44.7
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34.4
|
59.4
|
59.9
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17.1
|
19.9
|
68.3
|
60.6
|
65.8
|
61.1
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Boston, MA-NH
|
55.5
|
47.5
|
68.2
|
63.7
|
22.4
|
26.6
|
64.7
|
48.9
|
63.4
|
54.5
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Houston, TX
|
46.8
|
33.0
|
68.2
|
67.9
|
23.7
|
27.3
|
71.3
|
64.7
|
61.6
|
54.8
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Chicago, IL
|
51.7
|
45.1
|
78.0
|
72.7
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29.1
|
31.0
|
80.5
|
71.2
|
73.2
|
66.3
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Dallas, TX
|
66.4
|
49.0
|
64.8
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60.0
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15.5
|
19.6
|
74.3
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64.2
|
72.9
|
66.4
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Philadelphia, PA-NJ
|
56.8
|
49.2
|
78.1
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70.2
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34.5
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38.7
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72.2
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61.9
|
68.0
|
58.8
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The
table generally confirms the national pattern in which Africans are
surprisingly segregated from African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans, though
these values generally declined during the last decade. Washington and Atlanta offer the
possibility that where their populations are larger, Africans’ neighborhoods
may overlap more with those of other blacks.
However the case of New York shows that such a tendency is not
inevitable.
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