LAURA EVERETT

         With the Texas A&M Research Scholars Program and the Texas Research Data Center, I wrote a thesis analyzing racial-ethnic segregation patterns in Charleston, South Carolina and Buffalo, New York in 1940. This entailed creating a sequence of maps depicting racial-ethnic segregation patterns in historic 1940 enumeration districts in Charleston and Buffalo. Shapefiles are readily available for recent decades but they are not available for 1940 and earlier, making this product a unique and valuable resource to demographic research.

     Through work with Dr. Mark Fossett, the shapefiles have been analyzed in combination with newly released historical census data from 1940 to examine racial ethnic segregation and patterns of foreign-born populations. This work contributes to a larger project investigating residential distributions of racial and ethnic subpopulations within these, and other, cities.

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       This work was published as an undergraduate thesis through the Texas A&M Research Scholars Program and was presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association meeting in Austin, Texas on April 14, 2017.