Question

The _________________________ measurement constructed by the Taeubers in the 1960s refers to the percentage of African Americans who would have to move in order for neighborhoods to reflect the actual Black composition of a city. If a city had a 30 percent African American population as a whole and if a neighborhood was 90 percent Black, 60 percent of the Black population would have to move, resulting in a measurement of segregation of .60. On the basis of this measurement researchers found all U.S. cities were highly segregated, that is, with this measurement above .50 for African Americans.

	a.	Index of racial steering
	b.	Index of segregation
	c.	Index of inclusivity
	d.	Index of institutional racism

Answer 1

1.Option B)

The Index of segregation measurement constructed by the Taeubers in the 1960s refers to the percentage of African Americans who would have to move in order for neighborhoods to reflect the actual Black composition of a city. If a city had a 30 percent African American population as a whole and if a neighborhood was 90 percent Black, 60 percent of the Black population would have to move, resulting in a measurement of segregation of .60. African Americans have very low social mobility in US compared to Whites and other ethnic groups, Racism and segregation is a major problem faced by them.Taeubers in his study on segregation of black population in US cities found a segregation index of 0.5 in majority of cities, meaning that atlest 50% of African Americans will have to move to other neighbourhoods of the city to be equally spread throughout the city and not be segregated.