Gentrification

The Canal district in Worcester, Massachusetts is most accurately described as emerging. Despite its name, Worcester covered the Blackstone Canal in the late eighteen hundreds according to the Preservation Worcester website (Preservation Worcester). The lacking presence of the physical canal provides a decent metaphor for the status of the neighborhood, an area of the city that is lacking in terms of what it wishes it could be. Lynch argues that legibility of a city is vital to their…

The Aboriginals as the black community suffer through a lot of discrimination and prejudice; this was enforced by racial standards created by a certain group of individuals that have a predominately strong idea about racial and social ranks. Aboriginals were socially and racially profiled due to a difference in physical attributions, race does not defined a human biologically, race is socially constructed by people of power for their benefit, this group racially defines witch group will be…

“While many struggle for survival, others in the same society enjoy the benefits of great wealth.” (3, Rothman) The aspect of racial and economic oppression within the modern United States is unquestionable and has been since the beginning of our country as we know it. Although we have made improvements, whether they are far and few between, it does not ensure a colorblind society. As we become a more modern society, technologically speaking, we can see how far behind we are in terms of racism…

Differential Association A man (who will not identify himself) has been the centre of the Ottawa police’s attention after videos where he stayed inside certain buildings after hours without permission were found on youtube. Apparently, it is a new internet trend to make videos where individuals stay in various venues for 24 hours at a time and recording the experience. The perpetrator said that he did these videos because they gave him a rush and because the people love watching them. Police…

Usually in a community when gentrification occurs crime rates decrease due to an increased police presence such as police cars or patrol stations being sent out or established in the neighbourhood. The people who are perpetuating the crimes in the community are from other neighbourhoods…

Environmental Racism Although America will continue to diversify, little change will occur to the negative highlighting aspects of America. The wide gap between the socio-economic classes will remain, as well as new, often demeaning; stereotypes and prejudices will be arise. In addition to the inequality within the social and economic infrastructure, a commonly overlooked social problem is environmental racism. Environmental racism is classified as the discriminatory placement of people where…

7. Delinquent Gangs: ___ I missed this question because I confused both delinquent gangs and violent gangs in the test. Both of these gangs were violent, but I did not take into account the organization of the delinquent gangs. I believed because the gang was described as delinquents that they would be an unorganized gang with loose affiliation, and have violent tendencies. Delinquent gangs are more organized than violent gangs; because they do more than just fight they are committing crimes…

in the modern history of the United States. Some of the modern-day struggles that continue to affect our communities still include the fight against the erasure of our ancestors contributions to the Americas and saving our communities against gentrification. Though these struggles continue, the central figures we continue to see fighting with us are La Virgen Morena and danzantes…

Turner, Margery A. Housing Discrimination against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012: Executive Summary. , 2013. Internet resource. In “Housing Discrimination against Racial and Ethnic Minorities”, the federal report examines the differential treatment of minorities in their conquest for housing, a basic necessity. The experiment contains the comparison of whites between one of the three minorities, which were Hispanic, Black and Asian. The participants were categorized by their gender, age and…

able to afford a rise in their rent to be driven out into the streets. If Speck does see this displacement of the lower class as a necessary evil to make neighborhoods ‘better’, then he should make it more clear in his book on how to combat this gentrification, because his lack of acknowledgment for these people altogether leads me to believe that he thinks that it is an unavoidable…