Patterns of White Avoidance

• DOI: 10.1177/000271627944100110
• Date: 01 January 1979
• Author: Franklin D. Wilson
• Published date: 01 January 1979
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Patterns

of

White

Avoidance

By

FRANKLIN

D.

WILSON

ABSTRACT:

This

paper

addresses

the

issue

of

whether

whites’

utilization

of

alternate

forms

of

schooling

is

racially

motivated.

More

specifically,

an

effort

is

made

to

determine

whether

residence

in

census

tract

units

of

varying

racial

composition

influences

white

outmigration

and

utilization

of

nonpublic

schools.

Results

are

reported

and

summarized

for

sixty-three

public

school

districts

serving

central

cities.

It

is

found

that

residential

populations

living

within

individual

school

districts

differ

with

respect

to

the

extent

of

racial

selection

in

residential

relocation

and

nonpublic

school

utilization,

according

to

region,

percentage

of

public

school

pupils

black,

type

of

district,

and

implementation

of

school

desegregation

programs.

Franklin

D.

Wilson is

Associate

Professor

of

Sociology

and

a

member

of

the

Research

Staff

of

the

Institute

for

Research

on

Poverty

at

the

University

of

Wisconsin.

He

is

the

author

of

Residential

Consumption,

Economic

Opportunities

and

Race,

and

has

written

articles

on

metropolitan

structure

and

change.

He

is

currently

studying

the

demographic

impacts

of

school

desegregation

policy.

This

article

is

based

on

Discussion

Paper

78-500

which,

complete

with

tables,

is

available

from

the

Institute

for

Research

on

Poverty,

University

of

Wisconsin,

Madison.

ANNALS,

AAPSS,

441,

Jan.

1979