Research Opportunity for a Demography Gradate Student

The Portland research project is designed to measure the rate of change from Black to white residents in Portland's Albina (African American) neighborhood in Northeast Portland, just across the Willamette river from Portland's Pearl district, newly renovated and the northern end of downtown. The study also gauges the change in socio-economic characteristics including income and education, among other issues.  The study is modeled after a similar study of Seattle's Central Area, formerly 95% Black, but now probably around 30 percent Black and 30 percent white.  The project also will trace the rise of housing prices in Portland's Albina area, an increase which has effectually exiled African Americans to the eastern fringe of the city and beyond to its inner suburbs. Interested students should contact:
Henry W. McGee, Jr. Professor of Law
Seattle University
Tel: (206) 398-4026
Fax:     (206) 320-9848
Email: mcgee@seattleu.edu