Ethnic Enclave Economic Theory Essay

Though only briefly alluded earlier Ethnic Enclave Economic Theory seeks to explain how communities that fall with outside the normative value system and expectations of the dominant society are often have less access to social, political, natural, economic cultural capital and are often at a competitive disadvantage. The dominate society ensures this by the implementation of social policy that purposefully limited access to these forms of capital as a means to exert dominance over this now submissive group in an attempt to force this minority group to affiliate with the dominate culture to ensure to rival cultural ideologies to compete with. Furthermore this theory claims that this minority communities when faced with the choice of assimilation …show more content…
According to Ethnic Enclave Economic Theory an urban environment like Jackson Ward thrived on its ability to act autonomously and adapt to the needs of its own community. Take for example the issue of spatial availability within an urban city environment. For one thing an urban area unlike its rural counterpart is often unable to expand out in response to an influx in population density. In the case of Jackson Ward due to the cities deliberate attempt to centralize African Americans into certain Wards of the city, a huge surplus population found its way to the Jward area. The community and respectively the leaders that embodiment had to address this issue of spatial concern by adapting commercial spaces in to social space, a feature not entirely unique to the Jward area with respects to other African American communities that would develop across all of North America. Their is often a stereotypical characterization of certain black institutions that served this