ABSTRACT
Cities serving as global and regional economic centers in the United States are becoming important sites for concentrations of people of the Black and Latino Diaspora. While there have been major settlements of Blacks and Latinos in some of these same cities since the 1800s, the number of these locales and the density of their populations have increased dramatically since the 1960s. By 1990, Blacks and Latinos made up 54% of the nation's five largest cities (U.S. Bureau of the Census 1994).
