John W. Frazier is Professor of Geography at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the coeditor (with Eugene L. Tettey-Fio) of Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, also published by SUNY Press. Florence M. Margai is Associate Professor of Geography at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is the author of Environmental Health Hazards and Social Justice: Geographical Perspectives on Race and Class Disparities. Frazier and Margai are the coauthors (with Eugene L. Tettey-Fio) of Race and Place: Equity Issues in Urban America.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceI. INTRODUCTION 1.Multiculturalism and Multicultural Education in the United States: The Contributory Role of GeographyFlorence M. Margai and John W. Frazier2. Culture, Cultural Landscapes, and the Historical Contexts for Economic Expansion, Immigration, and Group Settlements in the United StatesJohn W. Frazier and Florence M. MargaiII. U.S. BLACK GEOGRAPHIES 3. Black American Geographies: The Historical and Contemporary Distributions of African AmericansEugene Tettey-Fio4. The Plight of African Americans in Michigan: Residential Segregation, and Predictable Outcomes in Mortgage Lending and Educational AchievementJoe T. Darden5. Predatory Lending and Race: A Case Study of a Washington, D.C. LenderDavid H. Kaplan6. Low Birth Weight and the Contribution of Residential Segregation, New York City, 2000Sue C. GradyIII. U.S. ASIAN GEOGRAPHIES 7. Asians in America: Some Historical and Contemporary PatternsJohn W. Frazier8. What Color is Segregation? Changing Spatial Segregation of Asians: 1980–2000David W. S. Wong9. From the Ghetto to the Invisiburb: Shifting Patterns of Immigrant Settlement in Contemporary AmericaEmily Skop and Wei Li10. Refugee Resettlement in Utica, New York: Opportunities and Issues for Community DevelopmentEllen Percy Kraly and Kristin VanValkenburg IV. U.S. LATINO GEOGRAPHIES 11. Changing Latino Geographies in the United StatesMark E. Reisinger and Eugene Tettey-Fio12. Determinants of Latino Migration to Allentown, PAMark E. Reisinger13 Latino Landscapes and Latino-Black Districts: A Study of Allentown, PAEugene Tettey-Fio14. Diversity Comes to a Small City: The Case of Binghamton, NYSuzanna Klaf, Karima Legette, and John W. FrazierV. METHODS OF RACIAL/ETHNIC DATA PORTRAYAL AND ANALYSIS 15. Reading and Mapping America’s Changing Ethnic Geomorphologies and Palimpsest GeographiesStanley D. Brunn16. The Use of a 3-D Mapping Technique to Portray Racial and Ethnic ChangeLucius S. Willis17. A Comparison of Traditional and Spatial Measures of Segregation: Some Empirical FindingsDavid W. S. Wong18. Using Geo-Data Techniques to Analyze Environmental Health Inequities in Minority Neighborhoods: The Case of Toxic Exposures and Low Birth WeightsFlorence M. MargaiSUMMATION Summary and Conclusions Florence M. Margai and John W. FrazierIndexContributors