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C Co on nt tr ri ib bu ut to or rs s PART I INTRODUCTION Florence M. Margai is Associate Professor of Geography at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on environmental pollution sources and health impacts in host communities. Her most recent areas of inquiry include: i) environmental inequities and health hazards in low income and minority communities, and ii) the linkages between chronic lowlevel exposure of children to contaminants and potential health consequences such as neurological disorders and learning disabilities. She is the author or co-author of two books and several journal articles, including those that have appeared in The Professional Geographer, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Environmental Management, and Environment and Behavior. John W. Frazier is Professor of Geography at Binghamton University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of applied geography, urban geography, and race/ethnicity issues. He has authored, co-authored, or edited several books and numerous articles, published in journals such as The Professional Geographer, The Journal of Geography, and Economic Geography. He served as a consultant for the Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Division of Housing and Urban Development. He was awarded the James R. Anderson Medal of Applied Geography in 1996. PART II U.S. BLACK GEOGRAPHIES Eugene Tettey-Fio is Assistant Professor of Geography at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York. His teaching and research interests are in applications of GIS, urban geography, and race/ethnicity issues. Professor Tettey-Fio codirected the international “Race/Ethnicity and Place” Mini-Conference in 2002. He is co-author of Race and Place. Equity Issues in Urban America. Joe T. Darden is Professor of Geography at Michigan State University. His research interests are residential segregation and neighborhood socioeconomic inequality between racial and ethnic groups in multiracial societies. He is the author of more than 100 publications, including Afro-Americans in Pittsburgh: The Residential Segregation of a People (1973) and Detroit: Race and Uneven Development (1987). His most recent book is entitled The Significance of White Supremacy in the Canadian Metropolis of Toronto, which is to be published in 2004. David H. Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Geography at Kent State University, where he directs the Urban Studies program. Dr. Kaplan received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and his BA from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kaplan has published articles in a wide variety of academic journals, and has had four books published: Segregation in Cities, Nested Identities, Boundaries and Place, and Urban Geography. Dr. Kaplan’s urban-related research interests include ethnic and racial segregation, urban and regional development, and transportation. He is co-editor of the journal National Identities, and is on the editorial board of Urban Geography. Sue C. Grady received a PhD in Geography from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Her research interest is in the area of medical geography. Currently, she is employed by the New York State Department of Health. She is interested in explanatory models of health disparities, including low birth weights, among various racial/ethnic groups. PART III U.S. ASIAN GEOGRAPHIES David W. S. Wong has a PhD in Geography from SUNY-Buffalo. He is Associate Professor of Geography and Chair of the Earth Systems and GeoInformation Sciences Program in the School of Computational Sciences at George Mason University . His primary research interests and publications are concentrated in the study of the spatial dimensions of segregation and the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP). He also has an interest in integrating spatial analytical techniques with GIS. Contributors 288 Emily Skop received a PhD in Geography from Arizona State University. Her research interests lie in urban and cultural geography. She applied the concept “invisiburb” to the study of suburbs in Phoenix, Arizona. Professor Skop has published in journals such as the International Migration Review. She currently is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Texas at Austin. Wei Li received her PhD in geography at the University of Southern California in 1997, and currently is Assistant Professor of Geography and Asian/Pacific Studies at Arizona State University. Her research foci are urban ethnicity and ethnic geography, immigration and integration, and financial sector and minority community development. Professor Li coined the term “ethnoburb” to describe a new form of contemporary suburban minority settlements, and continues her empirical studies in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area, and metropolitan Phoenix. She is widely published, including in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Ellen Percy Kraly is...

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