children.63 Another study found that in one third of the largest metro areas, there is no overlap in neighborhood poverty between blacks and whites and that neighborhood poverty distributions of whites overlapped those of blacks and Latinos only 27% of the time.64 Similarly, a national study of African Americans and Caribbean blacks that attempted to compare the black population to whites who live in similar residential contexts found that only 14% of whites in the U.S. reside in Census tracts or block groups where 10% or more of the population is black.17 A study of the 171 largest cities in the United States reported that there was not even one city where blacks lived under similar ecological conditions to those of whites in terms of concentrated poverty and female headed households.65 It concluded that the worst urban context in which whites reside was better than the average context of black communities.
