{"id":6044,"date":"2016-12-13T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2016-12-13T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T15:22:11","slug":"supermarkets-and-stratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/12\/13\/supermarkets-and-stratification\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermarkets and Stratification"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supermarket accessibility is a common marker of \u00a0community health, especially in terms of transportation, housing, and employment. Houston, TX has recently become one of the most racially and ethnically diverse cities in the U.S. due to its\u00a0flourishing Hispanic population, but\u00a0a recent article in <\/span>Rivard Report<\/span><\/a>\u00a0details\u00a0a new study that reveals unequal access to\u00a0s<\/span>upermarkets in this major Texas city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The research team, including\u00a0<\/span>Heather O\u2019Connell<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Jenifer Bratter<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0<\/span>Lester King,<\/a>\u00a0found<\/span>\u00a0that supermarket access is lowest in Houston neighborhoods with the largest black populations. This relationship remained even when accounting\u00a0for median income, the percentage of the population with college degrees and retail jobs, and population density.<\/span><\/p>\n

The neighborhoods with\u00a0the highest supermarket accessibility were majority White-Asian, Hispanic-Asian, and those with no majority. Those on the bottom-tier in accessibility were black-Hispanic, white-black, and black-white communities. Labeling this as a “tri-racial system of social stratification,” the researchers found that if a neighborhood has a majority of white or Asian inhabitants, it will likely have a supermarket within a half-mile, but in neighborhoods with a white majority and a sizable black population, the likelihood of a nearby supermarket is extremely diminished.\u00a0The researchers explain,<\/span><\/p>\n

“This clustering leaves some areas of the city with relatively less investment, particularly when comparing the southern and northeastern portions of the city with the northwestern corner of the city … What this tri-racial system tells us is that social stratification is happening along multiple racial and ethnic lines and to somewhat differing degrees depending on the group.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket accessibility is a common marker of \u00a0community health, especially in terms of transportation, housing, and employment. Houston, TX has recently become one of the most racially and ethnically diverse cities in the U.S. due to its\u00a0flourishing Hispanic population, but\u00a0a recent article in Rivard Report\u00a0details\u00a0a new study that reveals unequal access to\u00a0supermarkets in this major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,13,14],"tags":[40386,40388,492,39110,39111,40387],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-inequality","category-race","tag-food-desert-health","tag-grocery-stores","tag-houston","tag-inequality","tag-race","tag-supermarket"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}