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Black Employment Segregation Examples

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When reading article Black Employment, Segregation, and the Social Organization of Metropolitan Labor Markets, one can state many claims to this, location is everything. On page 289 gives a great example of “mapping”, by saying “The exposure dimension, which measures blacks’ likelihood of contact with whites, maps onto theories of isolation and may explain why members of minority and majority groups do not share similar social networks.” Given the example, used car dealership verse luxury car dealership, it would be much easy for a black male named Jamal to get a job selling cars in the hood or lower-class used car dealership area, then say selling luxury car dealership in middle to upper-class areas. Another great example that helps see this
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