Black and white housing: Race, suburbanisation, and homeownership in the US

Adam Serwer writes about racial polarization returning to Washington DC local politics after a brief truce:

Daniel Little:

 Opportunity is far from equal:

I used to live in DC’s U Street neighborhood and was fascinated by the local history. Essentially it was a key commercial main street for the city’s black community during the Jim Crow era, then fell apart under the triple pressures of riots, desegregation, and urban disinvestment and then has been reinvented since the opening of the U Street Metro station as a substantially whiter neighborhood.

From Princeton Professor Russell K. Nieli's article "How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others":

By Jamelle Bouie C.H. at Democracy in America flags a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts on the effect of marriage on economic mobility for children:

Richard Thompson Ford reviews Stuart Buck’s Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation: