Redlining

Growing up in North Philadelphia, I understood ‘White Flight’ to be a negative concept that left the neighborhood that I lived in for my whole life in despair. I remember riding home from school and seeing all of the abandoned warehouses and wondering what was there function and when was the last time people worked in them. The effects of white flight became very evident to me as I learned who once lived in my neighborhood versus who I see remaining. White Flight is a concept that is said to…

states that with residential segregation it inflicts poverty through a “culture of segregation” which insinuates that the ghetto was constructed by white people to keep blacks out of the white territory (as cited in Massey & Denton, 1993, p. 352). Redlining is illegal now, but it has left its mark on many big cities. For example, it has come to my attention that around downtown in many big cities, it has become urbanized and there are suburbs on the outskirts of the city where most white people…

First, after the civil rights movement and the abolition of the Jim Crow laws, a new form of institutionalized discrimination prevented housing loans to be granted for african americans inside of designated areas. This practice, called redlining, worked by giving color coded ratings to neighborhoods based on the racial diversity or lack thereof contained within them, and primarily preventing houses in neighborhoods designated as white to be sold to african americans. Often times this practice…

My Multicultural America Learning about race and ethnicity the past couple of weeks has been very eye opening for me. I am a middle class Caucasian girl that has never really had to deal with or even think about any of the things that many other people in American have influence their lives every single day. As much as we want to believe that racism is dead and there is no discrimination anymore, that just isn’t true. I don’t really feel like I can even talk about race and ethnicity because I…

loans to communities for improvement, the market is effectively frozen; no residents can leave the neighborhood as no home buyers have the opportunity to get a mortgage in the area and purchase the home (Pearcy 2). By participating in industry wide redlining, banks can implement prejudice on geographical scales. These false perceptions and unjust practices have chilling effects on race relations. Described by astute urban professor Peter Dreier, “Banks were refusing to make home and business…

In this last chapter, we are going to talk about the meaning of “whiteness” and modern-day racism, and why we should we even care about it. In the YouTube video by Tim Wise, he explained that prior to the late 1600s in the colony of which now known as the United States, there was no such thing as a white race. People of European Descent never referred to themselves with that term. Racism was developed by wealthy “white race” to one’s advantage for economic necessity and economic justice. He…

Urban refers to the built up space of a central city and its suburbs. It has a lack of agricultural area and is distinctly non-rural. Urban geography has four subfields that will be discussed in this summary. The first is the history of urbanization. Next, is intraurban geography, followed by interurban geography. The final subfield is urban planning and policy. Why do people live in cities and when did they start? Before urbanization, people where clustered in agricultural villages and were…

the idea of freedom. The very idea of Jim Crow conveys a strict and intentional segregation between blacks and whites through passed laws. Moore is arguing that institutions within Chicago used means to segregate neighborhoods other than laws. Redlining, bad mortages, racial steering, and other problems black families faced are examples of how Moore connects northern version of Jim Crow to long lasting effects of racial divide among…

Traditionally, white neighborhoods and black neighborhoods were highly segregated, as banks through processes such as redlining would decrease the value of homes, if black people were to move into the neighborhood. This practice perpetrated existing stereotypes of blacks being inferior to whites and contributed to a large systematic culture of racism, that made whites strongly…

Marx and Weber had different definitions for social class. Marx’s proposed that social class had a two class system, this system was split up amongst the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Marx believed that social class in contemporary societies was determined by the means of ownership. The bourgeoisie owned the means of production, such as factories, farms, coal mines etc. The proletariat were classified as manual workers who worked for the bourgeoisie. Marx suggested that the ownership of…