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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

William G. Buss Jr.
William G. Buss Jr.*
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
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New Haven has a population of just over 150,000, and approximately 15% of its population is nonwhite (virtually all Negroes). Just under 1% of the population is native or first generation Puerto Rican. Like many other New England cities, New Haven is highly “ethnic,” and is ethnically self-conscious. Besides the Negro segment of the population, almost 17% is of Italian stock; other identifiable nationality groups include Irish, German, Russian, and Polish. Many of the central Europeans are Jewish, and approximately two-thirds of the community is Roman Catholic. Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Italians, and to a lesser extent, Jews all tend to live within identifiable geographical boundaries. New Haven politics have tended to polarize around ethnic loyalties.

Type
Research Article
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , November 1967 , pp. 32 - 41
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by the Law and Society Association

Footnotes

Editors' Note: The original report to the United States Commissioner of Education (“Race and Education in New Haven, Connecticut,” 194 pp.) was written while Mr. Buss was a member of the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education working on a project dealing with the legal and educational aspects of de facto segregation in public schools. This condensation was prepared by the staff of the Law & Society Review.

Author's Note: The statistical data contained in this report were based on the situation as it existed at the time of this study, 1965, unless otherwise indicated.