Ethnic Neighborhoods in Multi-Ethnic America, 1990-2000: Resurgent Ethnicity in the Ethnoburbs?

questions: (1. Has the proportion of neighborhoods with high ethnic concentration changed in from 1990 to 2000? (2. What are the socio-demographic profiles of ethnic neighborhoods? (3. Are new ethnic neighborhoods forming in America’s suburbs? (4. How common are ethnoburbs – that is, affluent, suburban, ethnic neighborhoods? For most racial/ethnic groups, the number and share of ethnic neighborhoods grew from 1990 to 2000 and the suburbanization trend was remarkable. Asian neighbor-hoods as a whole experienced the fastest growth. Ethnoburbs have formed across the country. Although ethnoburbs are more an Asian phenomenon, Hispanic and black ethnoburbs have also developed. These patterns support the segmented assimilation model and the resurgence of ethnicity perspectives. Recent decades have witnessed a rapid increase in America’s racial/ethnic diversity (Iceland 2004). Due to the current U.S. fertility and immigration patterns, the rel-ative proportion of ethnic minorities in the United States has been rapidly growing such that it is projected that by 2060 the number of ethnic minorities will surpass that of non-Hispanic whites (U.S. Census Bureau 2000). Consequently, man