Most Americans live next door to, sit in classrooms with, and find friends among people of the same race or major ethnic group. Whites and Blacks especially live apart from one another, but Hispanics are also greatly isolated from those groups. This is segregation, the subject of several debates. The first concerns how to measure segregation, what are relevant data, and what types and degrees of separation constitute segregation? A second debate focuses on the ways in which segregation is problematic. A third targets remedies for segregation: for example, whether dispersal of segregated individuals or development of segregated neighborhoods is preferable. Last, a fourth debate concerns desirable and feasible strategies for implementing remedies.
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