Hypersegregation in the twenty-first century

@article{Wilkes2004HypersegregationIT,  title={Hypersegregation in the twenty-first century},  author={Rima Wilkes and John Iceland},  journal={Demography},  year={2004},  volume={41},  pages={23-36},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5777361}}
There were declines in the number of metropolitan areas with black hypersegregation, although levels of segregation experienced by blacks remained significantly higher than those of the other groups, even after a number of factors were controlled.

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