Selected News Stories Relating to Mumford Center Reports

  • The Muslim World in the United States. November 19, 2001.

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    "There is no debate, however, over the Middle Eastern population's growth. It has increased at least 50 percent in the past decade, according to Census Bureau figures compiled by John Logan, a sociology professor at the State University of New York-Albany. " Washington Post, November 20, 2001. Authors: D'Vera Cohn and Sarah Cohen



  • Ethnic Diversity Grows, Neighborhood Integration Is at a Standstill. April 3, 2001.

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    "The analysis, conducted by researchers at the State University of New York at Albany, found that from 1990 to 2000, even as virtually every corner of the country adopted a slightly darker hue, whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics still tended to live apart." New York Times, April 3, 2001. Author: Eric Schmitt.
     
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    "Despite increased diversity across the country, America's neighborhoods remain highly segregated along racial and ethnic lines, according to a study released Tuesday." USA Today, April 4, 2001. Author: Haya El Nasser.
     
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    "But while much progress has been made at the boundaries of race and ethnicity, most whites still live in remarkably separate neighborhoods from most non-whites, the census data show." The Chicago Tribune, April 8, 2001. Author: Clarence Page



  • Living Separately: Segregation Rises for Children. May 6, 2001.

    View article "Yet despite this evidence of America's increasing ethnic variety, the view from neighborhoods remains stubbornly segregated." Christian Science Monitor, March 14, 2001. Author: Laurent Belsie.
     
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    "Yet a new State University of New York analysis of Census data found that while blacks and whites overall live in slightly more integrated areas now than 10 years ago, their children live in increasingly segregated areas." USA Today, May 7, 2001. Author: Mark Mathabane
     
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    "The new analysis homes in on people under age 18, because the team felt that it's important to know whether tomorrow's adults are growing up and going to school with the variety of people they will encounter in later life. " Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 8, 2001. Author: David Peterson



  • The New Latinos: Who They Are, Where They Are. September 10, 2001

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    ""I think for Texas, there is still a very significant Mexican majority among Hispanics," said John Logan, sociologist and director of the Lewis Mumford Center, a demographic research organization at the State University of New York at Albany." Star-Telegram, October 15, 2001. Author: Anthony Spangler
     
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    "The analysis, conducted by researchers at the State University of New York at Albany, found that from 1990 to 2000, even as virtually every corner of the country adopted a slightly darker hue, whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics still tended to live apart." New York Times, April 3, 2001. Author: Eric Schmitt.
     
    View Article "Professor Logan... used data on ancestry and place of birth taken from the 1990 census, and data on birthplace from a survey done by the bureau in March 2000, to try to determine the specific Hispanic origin of people categorized "other Hispanic" in more than 100 cities." The New York Times, July 6, 2001. Author: Janny Scott.
     
    View Article "Logan's conclusions seemed to indicate that a more detailed breakdown of the Census 2000 count would reveal information that could be helpful to local government decision-making." New York Daily News, July 6, 2001. Author: Martin Mbugua .
     
    View Article "'The decisions about how to allocate and channel resources depend on what public officials see as the size and needs of these communities,' said John Logan, director of the Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research at the State University of New York at Albany. 'Undercounted can easily turn into underserved.' " Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2001. Author: Robin Fields
     
    View Article "One sociologist, John R. Logan, of the State University at Albany, in New York, recalculated the Hispanic numbers using data on ancestry and place of birth taken from a survey done by the bureau." Miami Herald, July 25, 2001. Authors: Amy Driscoll and Tim Henderson



  • The New Ethnic Enclaves in America's Suburbs. July 9, 2001

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    These patterns are troubling because poorer and less educated people tend to cluster in segregated neighborhoods. As a group, they tend to generate less funding for schools and services.USA Today, July 9, 2001. Author: Haya El Nasser.
     
    View Article "Increasingly, we're finding that immigrants are moving to the suburbs as their first step when they arrive in the country... It used to be you go to the city and then the suburbs." USA Today, July 9, 2001. Author: Haya El Nasser.