It is a phenomenon playing out in various ways in other historic black enclaves around the country, like Harlem and parts of Washington and Chicago.

Harlem was well on its way to becoming the world's largest black enclave outside of Africa.

They imagined their community a century hence as a largely black enclave, with every stereotype imaginable: watermelons, basketballs and so on.

Pickings from the black enclaves apparently aren't enough for them, so they've decided to expand and milk some gullible blanks as well.

His words are peppered with allusions to black enclaves in apartheid South Africa.

Cambria Heights is a middle- to upper-middle-class predominantly black enclave, where many West Indians have moved in over the last 15 years.

The area south of Washington Square developed into a black enclave later in the 19th century.

In 2000, the state allotted a federal development grant to pay for water and sewer lines for a black enclave called Monroe Town.

All are historically black enclaves.

But some white liberals as well as conservatives say the districts carve out artificial black enclaves that institutionalize racial division.