Redlining

During great migration, black americans such as Ida Mae Turner, George Starling and Richard Sterling Foster from “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson fled the segregation and persecution of the Jim Crow south. These immigrants headed north and west in search of a life not as a second class citizen but as a full american citizen with equal rights, and while what they found on the other side of Jim Crow was certainly substantially better, there was also a large amount of more discrete…

In “The Case of Reparations” Ta-Nehisi Coates goes over the legacy of slavery, discrimination, segregation, and the branches of it such as the times of Jim Crow and the countless unfavorable situations of African Americans encounter during that time. He emphasized the biased real estate agents of the 1960s to be more specific in North Lawndale, Chicago which follows the journey of Clyde Ross. Coates used Clyde Ross to set a foundation for his essay that tells a story of the society and…

Poverty and Welfare Poverty exist because resources are scarce and cannot be equally distributed. Worldwide income is measured by Gini Index, (from zero to one) “If all the income in the world were earned by one person and everyone else earned nothing, the world would have a Gini index of one. If everyone in the world earned exactly the same income, the world would have a Gini index of zero ” (Lepore 2015). The Gini index simply measures the gap between the rich and poor, and for the U.S. the…

The existence of race is a matter of contention. Forensic anthropologists deem it a useful entity in their line of work due to finding success with using race for matching skeletal remains with a particular profile. However, arguments against the existence of a biological race are convincing. Analysis of genetic sequences has revealed that whilst there is much individual genetic variation, between population differences are minute (Livingstone and Dobzhansky, 1962). Specifically, Templeton…

They decided to revert back to the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA), to help push through their agenda to expand loans to minorities and lower income families. CRA was implemented to stop redlining districts and open up opportunities for those lower income families trying to procure a loan. It can be argued and has, that lenders were not violating CRA, they simply were being cautious to who they lent to, people they believed could afford the…

I am sitting down to finish this paper on Saturday night. I had decided to not complete this paper and you ask “Because you ran out of time?” …“Or is out of sheer defiance?!? (McIntosh)” Honestly, neither of those reasons. I had sat down no less than five different times over the course of the last week to complete this paper. At first I assumed this would be the easiest paper that I had written all semester for American Ethnicity. I thought this was because not only did I enjoy the reading and…

of capital costs including buildings, facilities, and equipment (Filardo, 2016). However, this funding mechanism proves to be problematic as we consider that decades of state sanctioned discriminatory housing policies from racial segregation to redlining and predatory lending have had an intergenerational sorting effect on neighborhoods. Such policies pushed lower income and populations of color/ethnic minorities to become concentrated in disinvested low resourced neighborhoods while…

The author, Ta-nehisi Coates who wrote the essay “The Case for Reparation” is a senior editor of the Atlantic magazine. In his essay, he brings forwards a powerful message about racism, white supremacy and the heritage that comes along with it. White supremacy is defined by Coates as a system that holds a group of people by their ancestors on a level above other groups. The word “white” has been adjusted over time to assimilate groups and make part of. At one time, the Irish, Italians, and…

One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” (George Balch, “The Pledge of Allegiance”) is a line read with a hand proudly placed on one 's heart. As a child in elementary school each morning we had to pledge our allegiance to the flag with those very words. As an adult, I see now those words were said and are continually said with no merit or truth to stand behind it. We are not indivisible, there is no liberty, and there is not justice for all because black America is left out…

students through education reform. The United States has a deeply segregated educational system that is benefitting affluent white students and is disenfranchising poor students of color. I want to be able to show that government ideologies such as redlining are affecting who can obtain a premier education. Through this, I hope to expose the reality of marginalized communities. In the future, I hope to be able to show that we should move from focusing on equality, but should rather focus on…