Ann Owens

@annowens.bsky.social

Sociologist. Neighborhoods, housing, schools, segregation, policy. Co-Director, Segregation Tracking Project: http://edopportunity.org/segregation Co-Editor, City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social

I am from Chicago. Why do I sound like a Valley Girl? 🤔 Report here: www.brownspromise.org/statesofsegr... For all your segregation tracking needs: edopportunity.org/segregation

State Segregation Ranking — Brown's Promise

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ASA member Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social comments on recent research that sheds light on why school segregation persists, noting that, contrary to popular belief, some of the most segregated states in the U.S. are not in the South, but in the Midwest and Northeast.

"Segregation academies ought to be a thing of the past, but they could experience a resurgence—paid for with taxpayer dollars—under the new federal private school voucher scheme" Important new report from @halleypotter.bsky.social tcf.org/content/comm...

A New Federal Voucher Program Poised to Ramp Up School Segregation

In rural Northampton, North Carolina, a private Christian school called Northeast Academy is 99 percent White in a county that’s 40 percent White. It

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In 1979, incarcerated men in NY analyzed the link between neighborhoods and incarceration, finding that 75% of NY prisoners came from 7 neighborhoods in New York City. In a new paper, Jessica Simes, Ronald Day, and Louisa Holaday take a new look at the geography of incarceration. bit.ly/4v5bjJt

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Happy June 1st! ☀️ First up in our June issue is Jamie Lew's new article on how refugee families facing housing exploitation build alliances with other marginalized tenants, resisting housing inequality and expanding agency through grassroots interracial collaboration. Read more at the link below.

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New in CiCo: Using the 2020 George Floyd protests as a case study, Evan Ferstl finds that walkability is associated with higher protest frequency—both citywide and at the census tract level. A timely reminder about how the built environment can shape political action! See more at the link below.

Places for Public Discourse: Walkability and Protest in the United States - Evan Ferstl, 2026

Social movement scholarship on the emergence of protest has limited engagement with urban scholarship on the spatial production of social relations. Spatial cha...

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New in CiCo: Do college roommate assignments shape where we choose to live later in life? Matt Vogel, Samantha Friedman, and Stefan Ivanov find that students assigned a roommate of a different race or ethnicity are more than twice as likely to choose a diverse dorm room the following year!

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#FromtheArchives 10 years ago, CiCo published a special issue on residential segregation, asking authors to consider the role of segregation then and in the future. These essays, exploring racial stratification, opportunity, and urban transformation, are still highly relevant. Revisit here:

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The final Associate Editor to introduce is Orly Clerge! Her work on race, migration, and cities makes her a great addition to the editorial team. She is also the author of The New Noir, an exploration of the making of Black diasporic suburbs. Welcome, Orly—we're thrilled to have you on the team!

Jessica Simes (jtsimes.bsky.social) is joining CiCo as an Associate Editor! Her work examines how the carceral system shapes inequality and health. Her award-winning book, Punishing Places, uses spatial analysis to show how incarceration impacts communities. We’re honored to have her on the team!