Reading path
Race and place
5 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.
- 1Birthweight and preterm birth
Chapter 1.1 in Part I, Birth
In counties of 100,000 or more residents, the share of births under 2,500 grams rises from 7.4% in the least deprived tenth of counties to 9.7% in the most deprived, and the rate for non-Hispanic Black mothers is higher than for non-Hispanic white mothers in every quartile of county deprivation.
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- 2Test scores, class and race
Chapter 2.1 in Part II, School
Average achievement in third through eighth grade differs by 2.54 grade levels between the 5th and 95th percentile of counties, and it rises with county income, with a positive slope in 45 of 45 states.
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- 3School discipline and incarceration
Chapter 3.1 in Part III, The climb
In the 2020 to 2021 school year, out-of-school suspensions ran from 3.1 per thousand students in the least deprived tenth of districts to 23.6 in the most deprived, Black students were suspended at 2.2 times the white rate in the same districts, and among children from low-income families raised in the same tracts, 5.2% of Black children and 1.9% of white children were incarcerated on Census Day 2010.
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- 4Race, income and mobility
Chapter 3.3 in Part III, The climb
White children from low-income families reached a higher adult income rank than Black children raised in the same tract in 92.5% of the 30,997 tracts where both are estimated, and across the 1,265 counties with life expectancy estimates for both groups, weighted by population, non-Hispanic white life expectancy exceeds non-Hispanic Black by 4.4 years.
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- 5Air pollution
Chapter 5.3 in Part V, Health and the body
The national traffic-pollution percentile of a census tract has a correlation of −0.41 with the Area Deprivation Index across tracts but +0.19 within counties, and the NO₂ percentile rises with the Hispanic share of residents from 33 in the lowest decile to 73 in the highest.
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