Redlining

The film I chose to watch is Alfonso Cuaron’s film, Gravity. The film is less of sci-fi and more of space thriller. I chose to watch this film because I have always been a fan of thriller films and this film is different and one of its kind. Especially watching the film in 3-D is worth. Most 3-D films are more like a gimmick but this is film achieves real depth and spatial awareness for the viewer. Perhaps, the film makes you breathless with excitement. To me, the film was more than a…

enduring. Blacks are more likely to suffer from high infant mortality rate, poverty, unequal employment, lack of educational attainment, and a weak relationship to the state. In terms of spatial and residential segregation, racist policies such as redlining, restrictive covenants, zoning, and discriminatory lending have socially reproduced inequality in overall…

Writing in 1960 for Esquire, James Baldwin described the damage done by New York City’s racial segregation practices, particularly the desolation of the Riverton housing project. The state of housing segregation in Seattle today is a long way from the dire straits of black housing in Baldwin’s Harlem. Particularly striking, though, is Baldwin’s contrasting of the white, wealthy Fifth Avenue downtown and Fifth Avenue in Harlem. To some extent, this juxtaposition should feel familiar to Seattle’s…

378 How did the Great Recession impact racial disparities? When the housing market collapsed in 2008, it sent all Americans into a spiral. People lost value on their homes, their stocks went down, unemployment went up, and many people had to dip into their savings accounts to help them. This time became known as the Great Recession, or as many like to call it, the worst economic time for America since the Great Depression. In a Utopian society, if something like this were to happen, everyone,…

on the 30th of September 1975 in Baltimore Maryland, Coates has written many works on race and its systematic influence."Coates grapples with the rationalizations for slavery and their persistence in twentieth-century policies like Jim Crow and redlining—the practice of denying loans and other financial services to African-Americans."[3] (MacArthur Fellows Program) Coates wrote Between The World And Me in July 2015, this time period is when police brutality began to catch the attention of the…

With acceptance rates at all-time lows, elite colleges are becoming more and more challenging for students to earn a position within. Good grades and extracurriculars are no longer enough; students need to have national or unique recognitions to be considered for acceptance into colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That is, of course, unless your parents can play a role. The 2019 college admissions scandal known as ‘Operation Varsity Blues’ is one…

John Mc Cormick Hist 31 TTH 11-12:30 Research Paper The Battle of The Chavez Ravine A small farming community trying to survive in the rapidly expanding and changing City of Los Angeles California, only to be met with false promises from the city leading to their houses being turned into dust. The story of these families who lived in The Chavez Ravine is one filled with political mistrust and ethical dilemmas. The takeover of The Chavez Ravine led to the eminent domain of approximately 2,000…

In New York, African Americans were free after the 1800's, but being free was not the end of many hardships. As the African American struggle to be free ends, new struggles would begin under their new title of "free." After Emancipation, African Americans had a mixture of feelings. Excitement to be free to live as people, not property. Anxiety over where to go, finding work, staying alive. Many free black Americans were refused work. Many whites were angry, and decided if they didn't own you…

underprivileged areas are underfunded and overpopulated (Edelman). Jobs are rarely available, and when they are these jobs are difficult to acquire as a result of implicit bias against minorities and women in the workplace. Housing discrimination and redlining makes it difficult for people in underprivileged communities to escape those communities even when they may have the funds to do so. It is like making a child start a race fifty miles behind the start, and being upset that she does not…

The government ignored the Declaration of Independence in 1960 by not giving blacks their unalienable rights (King, “Speeches” 150). People of all races are guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but this was not upheld. Blacks were horribly discriminated against by white people. In 1963, there was a man who spoke in front of thousands of people whose speeches are still read and lectured today, and this man’s name was Martin Luther King Jr. The ‘I Have a Dream Speech’ is…