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Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton argue that racial segregation, not just economic factors, is the fundamental cause of extreme poverty among urban African Americans. Residential segregation traps black communities in conditions of poverty, deterioration, and limited social and geographic mobility. It also undermines their social and economic well-being by concentrating poverty, joblessness, out-of-wedlock births, and failure in segregated neighborhoods. While civil rights laws aimed to address discrimination
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