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Book Reviews BEYOND SEGREGATION:MULTIRACIAL AND MULTIETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE UNITED STATES:CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE PAST,by Michael Maly. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 278 pp. ISBN 1592131344 (cloth) 1592131352 (paper). Reviewed by Ingrid Gould Ellen New York University While levels of residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas remain disturbingly high, the number of integrated neighborhoods has been quietly and steadily rising over the past few decades. In 1980, 28 percent of neighborhoods in U.S. metropolitan areas included more than one racial or ethnic group in significant numbers. By 2000, that proportion had risen to 44 percent. Michael Maly’s interesting new book, “Beyond Segregation: Multiracial and Multiethnic Neighborhoods in the United States,” highlights the existence of these diverse neighborhoods, and through three detailed case studies, reveals the challenges and rich complexity of contemporary integration. Maly focuses on what he calls the “new” integration, which he distinguishes in three key ways from the type of integration that has been the focus of previous academic at- tention. First, new integration is unplanned; neighborhoods experiencing it are diverse by “circumstance” rather than by “direction” or “design.” These new integrated neigh- borhoods lack organizations that explicitly promote integration or combat white flight. Second, these communities are composed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

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City and Community , Volume 4 (4): 1 – Dec 1, 2005
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SAGE
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1535-6841
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1540-6040
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10.1111/j.1540-6040.2005.00146.x
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BEYOND SEGREGATION:MULTIRACIAL AND MULTIETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE UNITED STATES:CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE PAST,by Michael Maly. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 278 pp. ISBN 1592131344 (cloth) 1592131352 (paper). Reviewed by Ingrid Gould Ellen New York University While levels of residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas remain disturbingly high, the number of integrated neighborhoods has been quietly and steadily rising over the past few decades. In 1980, 28 percent of neighborhoods in U.S. metropolitan areas included more than one racial or ethnic group in significant numbers. By 2000, that proportion had risen to 44 percent. Michael Maly’s interesting new book, “Beyond Segregation: Multiracial and Multiethnic Neighborhoods in the United States,” highlights the existence of these diverse neighborhoods, and through three detailed case studies, reveals the challenges and rich complexity of contemporary integration. Maly focuses on what he calls the “new” integration, which he distinguishes in three key ways from the type of integration that has been the focus of previous academic at- tention. First, new integration is unplanned; neighborhoods experiencing it are diverse by “circumstance” rather than by “direction” or “design.” These new integrated neigh- borhoods lack organizations that explicitly promote integration or combat white flight. Second, these communities are composed

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Published: Dec 1, 2005

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