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white flight: a standalone construct

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Urban sociology

the movement of white residents out of central cities or racially changing neighborhoods to the suburbs.

In urban sociology, white flight refers to the movement of white residents out of central cities or racially changing neighborhoods to the suburbs. This meaning comes from Frey (1979) in American Sociological Review.[1]

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flight3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs movement2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs white avoidance1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Frey, W. H. (1979). Central City White Flight: Racial and Nonracial Causes. American Sociological Review, 44(3), 425. https://doi.org/10.2307/2094885

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