Generally accepted models of ethnic assimilation outline a pattern of decreasing residential segregation associated with increasing similarity to native whites. Similar models for the black population posit continuing residential concentration combined with rapid turnover and succession. Our analysis of data on recent settlement patterns of Puerto Ricans in New York incates that this group is conforming the neither type of previously accepted model. Competition between te Puerto Rican minority and the larger, more economically advantaged black minority, a new set of public housing opportunities, and the return migration of successful Puerto Ricans are actors that were not considered in previously developed models. A new model of residential segregation and succession must incorporate these realites of contemporary urbanization.
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Rosenberg et al. (1976) studied this question.