ABSTRACT
From the public housing projects in Cambridgeport to the colonial mansions along Brattle Street, from the ivied campuses of Harvard and MIT to the scruffy bargain stores in Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a city of contrasts. Its population of nearly 100,000 includes both black and white, rich and pooroften coexisting within a few blocks of one another, or even in the same neighborhoods, yet living largely separate lives. The Harvard/Brattle Street end of the city is mostly white and uppermiddle-class, while the Central Square stores and neighborhoods just a mile or so away are populated predominately by minorities with noticeably darker skin and less money.
