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Geographical Review October 1995, 85(4), pp. 458-477. -- Special Issue on Urban Geography -- Urban Multiethnicity Dennis Dingemans & Robin Datel   ABSTRACT Multiethnicity is becoming increasingly important in medium-sized metropolitan areas in the United States. The case study is Sacramento, California, where unusually dispersed ethnic residential patterns have been sustained by in-migration of blacks, Hispanics, and Asians during the past forty years. Urban morphology and employment location explain the expansion of ethnic residential sectors north and south of the central business district. Minority-owned businesses have diffused beyond ethnic commercial districts. Minorities have been elected to local offices in citywide races and from multiethnic districts. Sacramento lacks an architecturally distinctive ethnic-minority core and abutting exlusionary incorporated suburbs. Key words: ethnicity, multiethnicity, Sacramento, segregation. DR. DINGEMANS is a professor of geography at the University of California, Davis. DR. DATEL is s a professor of geography at the University of California, Davis. To contact the authors: Mail: Prof. Dennis Dingemans Department of Geography University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616 U.S.A. Phone: (916) 752-0794 (office), (916) 754-8315 (fax) Professor Robin Datel Department of Geography University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616 U.S.A. Phone: (916) 752-0790 (office), (916) 754-8315 (fax) Electronic mail: Dingemans -- DJDINGEMANS@UCDAVIS.EDU