Racial Segregation In Southside, By Natalie Moore

In her book “Southside,” Natalie Moore addresses the means of segregation within Chicago’s neighborhoods, by focusing on racial preference, diversity, identity, and effects it has on black neighborhoods. Natalie Moore shares her own view as a black women living in the south side of Chicago, examining how racial segregation within communities has created a “white” and “black’ Chicago, leading to racial inequalities. Moore asserts the importance of diversity within Chicago, but suggests that racial inequalities and the “legacy of segregation and its ongoing policies have kept the city divided” (Moore#). She links problems such as underemployment and violence which are directly associated to the south side, and connects it all back to segregation. Even more, segregation of the white and black communities has lead to preference making which naturally segregates black and white neighborhoods. …show more content…
Redlinning, bad mortages, racial steering and failed school policies led to a “northern version of Jim Crow”( 1). Because she uses the idea of Jim Crow, Moore directly links intentional south segregation to the north, generally associated with the idea of freedom. The very idea of Jim Crow conveys a strict and intentional segregation between blacks and whites through passed laws. Moore is arguing that institutions within Chicago used means to segregate neighborhoods other than laws. Redlining, bad mortages, racial steering, and other problems black families faced are examples of how Moore connects northern version of Jim Crow to long lasting effects of racial divide among