Redlining

Heading 1: Describe Structural and Cultural Forces that Contribute to Racial Inequality Structural and cultural forces both equally have done a tremendous amount for racial inequality, and both have had there own impact. Structural forces and cultural forces interact a lot of the time you can't have one without the other. Several structural forces are things such as when African Americans were made to go to a separate bathroom or drink from a separate water fountains. On top of that laws were…

Hasan Saleem Weekly Critical Reading Review #4 The readings over the past two weeks and the film La Haine focused on the issue of social and spatial discrimination in cities. The major theme present in the movie and essays is the socioeconomic conditions of the marginalized, African Americans in United States and the poor French working class and immigrants. The essays also focused on the power of the states and how those in power marginalize others. The film La Haine centers on the fact that…

pauperism, exclusion of domestic and agricultural workers from the New Deal, redlining), and how this can influence one’s perception of the opportunity that they have, and consequently their behavior. It is insinuated later on in the chapter that with a greater understanding of behavior and its relation to culture, “policy levers”…

CONTEXTUALIZING DISPARATE IMPACTS IN RICHMOND Is Richmond’s experience representative of a larger problem? Although highly regulated, implementation and enforcement of the oil refining industry differs, which may explain why a 1995 study by the Environmental Defense Fund found significant variation in emissions among refining facilities in the U.S. While California did not rank in the five worst or five best states in terms of efficiency, one might infer that uneven implementation and…

Fitzgerald (2014) describes residential segregation as urban areas that are disproportionally composed of people of color while suburban and rural areas are almost all white. Factors that contribute to the ongoing residential segregation in our society include socioeconomic status, prejudice of minority groups, and housing discrimination. Although the socioeconomic status of individuals is a factor that determines where these people will live, black homeowners are still less likely to live in…

as dangers to their own financial and social soundness. Any proposal of up and coming coordination, he recommends, left white mortgage holders edgy, apprehensive that their single most essential venture - their home - would get to be useless. The redlining practices of the Federal Housing Authority strengthened and reflected white homeowner's nerves, for the FHA declined…

want to own homes in the chosen neighborhood because they fear of their home depreciating value. Homes dropping market value because living around black Americans has happened before, would need to reinsure home buyers it would not happen again. Redlining becomes a serious threat if the government is in charge of choosing the homes, we cannot trust them to find the locations for this new…

at slavery and must remember to forget that they believe that slavery is wrong because people in that time period did not believe that is was wrong. Sociologist need the past to understand the future too. Segregation has caused Jim Crow Laws, and Redlining to occur which influences poverty in urban areas (Harrison). Today, the former slaves, “the darker ones come even now not altogether empty-handed: there are today no truer exponents of the pure human sprite of the Declaration of Independence…

First off I believe that Affirmative Action is a great policy put in place to make sure that diversity is achieved and maintained (Wilkins, V. M., & Wenger, J. B., 2014). Having a diverse work and school community helps expose people to different ideas and cultures that are different from there 's and gives individuals a different perspective of several topics. For many centuries minorities including blacks, Latinos, women, and homosexuals have been placed lower on the totem pole as compared to…

“Oppression”, a word that when heard by most people draw thoughts of conditions in distant places and times: it is what cruel dictators, tyrants, and totalitarian governments do to their subjects or a group they have conquered. The general public believes that oppression can not occur in open and democratic societies, partly due to their incorrect association of oppression with an intent to oppress. However, oppressive conditions thought to not exist in liberal societies, do in fact exist, not…