For this week’s reading memo, I will be looking at American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglass S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton. The main argument of this article is that racial segregation causes the perpetuation of poverty for black people in the United States. The authors use historical analysis and research on the effects of racial segregation to support their argument. I think that their argument was convincing because they explain the adverse effects of racial segregation and how it disproportionately effects black people in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups. However, I think that their argument could have been strengthened if they used more statistics. For example, the authors state that, “Quantitative
