Dr. Farley has conducted three surveys in metropolitan Detroit about the causes of racial residential segregation. He will speak about the racial and economic changes in Detroit after bankruptcy.

Reynolds Farley is a Research Scientist at the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research and the Otis Dudley Duncan Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. His research focuses upon current population trends in the United States with an emphasis upon racial differences. He has written extensively about racial and economic trends in the Detroit area.

This is the second of six lectures in the series "Detroit: Complex Past, Promising Present, Uncertain Future."