Clark W A
Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
Demography. 1992 Aug;29(3):451-66.
A study of the expressed preferences of four different ethnic groups in the Los Angeles metropolitan area shows strong desires for own-race combinations in the ethnicity of neighborhoods that individuals say they would choose when seeking a new residence. The results also show that Anglos are not the only group to practice "avoidance" of other racial/ethnic neighborhoods, although avoidance behavior by Anglos is the strongest. Because the issues of racial composition are socially sensitive, additional tests examined the relationship of preferences to behavior. Although many behaviors generally follow expressed preferences, members of households who expressed "no preference" also were found to largely choose own race neighborhoods. The results of this study suggest that the expressed preference for own race/own ethnicity, in combination with short-distance local moves, is likely to maintain present patterns of separation in U.S. metropolitan areas.
一项针对洛杉矶大都市区四个不同种族群体的显性偏好研究表明，在寻找新住所时，个人表示会选择的社区种族构成中，他们强烈希望是同种族组合。结果还表明，盎格鲁人并非唯一会“避开”其他种族/民族社区的群体，尽管盎格鲁人的回避行为最为强烈。由于种族构成问题在社会上较为敏感，因此还进行了额外测试，以检验偏好与行为之间的关系。尽管许多行为通常与显性偏好相符，但那些表示“无偏好”的家庭住户也大多选择了同种族社区。这项研究结果表明，对同种族/同民族的显性偏好，再加上短距离的本地迁移，很可能会维持美国大都市区目前的隔离模式。
