Suggested Running Head: Racial Discrimination and Redlining

The aim of this paper is to bring together spatial and racial dis-crimination in an urban framework. While racial discrimination is against black workers, spatial discrimination (or redlining) is against residents living in the city-center. When the relative access cost for black workers to employment centers is su¢ciently large, a city is seg-regated by race. When the relative access cost is su¢ciently small, a city is segregated by employment status. By examining the interaction between land and labor markets, this paper …nds that both race and space are responsible for the high unemployment rate among blacks