Posted on behalf of Madhuri Sharma: 2011 AAG Paper Session: Racial/Ethnic Diversity, Segregation and Geographical Perspectives
Racial/ethnic diversity in the United States has increased significantly in recent decades, now accounting for almost one-third of the total population. At the same time, growing diversity has spread into mid-sized and smaller urban, rural, and non-metropolitan areas. Recent research has suggested changing trends of diversity in the ‘new south’ and ‘non- traditional’ cities that have seen growth of non-African American communities across urban and rural spaces. The question, however, is the degree to which increasing diversity equates with increasing intermixing or, alternatively, whether racial/ethnic enclaves, a form of segregation, retain their prominence. In this session we will explore various connotations of growing multi-racial/ethnic landscapes within the context of urban locations and local neighborhoods of traditional as well as non- traditional cities that have shown drastic change in their residential mosaics. We will also explore aspects of economic growth and smart urban development that have attraction diversity to non-traditional places. If you would like to present your research in this session, please email your abstract and PIN number to Madhuri Sharma at [email protected] by 4th November 2010. Madhuri Sharma, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Geography 416 Burchfiel Geography Building 1000 Phillip Fulmer Way University of Tennessee Knoxville-37996-0925 Phone: 865-974-6077 Fax: 865-974-6025 Email: [email protected] Home page: http://web.utk.edu/~utkgeog/faculty/sharma.htm
