ABSTRACT

New York City has lost more lives from covid-19 than any other American city. This study examines variation in covid-19 deaths across neighborhoods as it relates to variation in the racial, ethnic, and nativity-status composition of neighborhoods. This topic has received little scholarly attention and is imperative to explore, given the absence of racial and ethnic specific covid-19 mortality rates by neighborhood. New York City is a racially and ethnically segregated city, and a longstanding destination of immigrants, making some neighborhoods more susceptible to greater levels of covid-19 mortality than others. Using ZCTA-level data on covid-19 deaths and demographic data from the American Community Survey, our descriptive and bivariate choropleth mapping analyses reveal that a racial, ethnic, and nativity-status hierarchy exists in the geographic distribution of covid-19 mortality. Implications of these findings are discussed as they relate to residential segregation and persistent spatial inequalities faced by neighborhoods of color.

摘要

纽约市因covid -19丧生的生命比任何其他美国城市都多。这项研究检查了社区之间 covid -19 死亡人数的变化，因为它与社区的种族、民族和出生地位构成的变化有关。鉴于没有按社区划分的特定种族和民族的covid -19 死亡率，该主题几乎没有受到学术界的关注，因此很有必要进行探讨。纽约市是一个种族和民族隔离的城市，也是移民的长期目的地，这使得一些社区比其他社区更容易受到更高水平的covid -19 死亡率的影响。在covid上使用 ZCTA 级别的数据-19 死亡和来自美国社区调查的人口统计数据，我们的描述性和双变量等值分布图分析表明，covid -19 死亡率的地理分布中存在种族、民族和出生地位等级。讨论了这些发现的含义，因为它们与有色人种社区面临的居住隔离和持续的空间不平等有关。