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“Asian growth has doubled in the last 10 years. They’re really booming in the middle suburbs,” McArdle said, noting that rates of segregation differ within the Asian population itself. Chinese and Indians constitute the largest Asian groups in the middle suburbs...
But while Asians are experiencing the most integration in suburbs, Latino populations are experiencing the most growth in segregation overall, McArdle said.
The Boston area’s black population, however, is experiencing the highest level of segregation. Seventy percent would have to move to be integrated. But McArdle noted that this percentage is an improvement from the 75 percent predicted by the 1990 census.
CRP Co-director Gary A. Orfield, professor of education and social policy at Harvard Law School, said dismantling desegregation programs in public education in the face of increasing segregation will hurt growing minority populations.
Panelists who helped present the report agreed that greater political participation is needed to deal with segregation.