Archival Research

Databases

• Social Explorer

• U.S. Census: 

  • Decennial Census

  • American Community Survey

  • Quick Facts

  • Data Research Centers

  • Economic Census

• Bay Area Census Data

• Best Neighborhood, “Racial Distribution for Every City and Neighborhood—Race by City"

• DataUSA 

• IPUMS USA, "U.S. Census Data for Social, Economic, and Health Research"

• School District Demographics System (National Center for Education Statistics)

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Census Publications​​​​​

• Gibson, Campbell, and Kay Jung. “Population Totals by Race, 1790 to 1990, and by Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States.” U.S. Census Bureau. Working Paper No. 56. Washington DC: GPO, 2002.

• ——. “Historical Census Statistics On Population Totals by Race, 1790 to 1990, and by Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities and Other Urban Places in The United States.” U.S. Census Bureau. Working Paper No. POP-WP076. Washington DC: GPO, 2002. 

• Digital Scholarship Lab. “Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America.” University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab.

• ——. "America Panorama: An Atlas of United States History." University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab.

• Frey, William H. “The Great American Migration Slowdown: Regional and Metropolitan Dimensions.” Brookings (December 2009), 1-24. 

• ——. “The New Great Migration: Black Americans Return to the South, 1965-2000.” In Redefining Urban And Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000, eds. Alan Berube, 87-110. Washington D.C. Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

• ——. “Today’s suburbs are symbolic of America’s rising diversity: A 2020 census portrait,” Brookings Institution (June 15, 2022).

• The U.S. Census Bureau, “History of Metropolitan Areas” (September 3, 2024).​​

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