The Persistence of America's ‘Easy White Enclaves'

george ruiz / Flickr Myron Orfield, who directs the Institute for Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota, has had a multifaceted career, having been a civil-rights lawyer, a state legislator, a professor, and the author of books on regional governance and suburban development. (He's also the brother of the social scientist Gary Orfield, an expert on school segregation.) In a paper he co-authored in 2012, Orfield described the state of integration in U.S. suburbs as fragile , and called for stepped-up enforcement of the Fair Housing Act to stop illegal practices such as......(read more)

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