Segregation And Economic Inequality : The Loss Of The Integrationist Dream By Gary Orfield

Today racial inequality is ongoing whether you are aware of it or not. We have come a long way from segregated seats to public transportation. The issue of race and race relations has really scarred the history of this nation and has been a constant reminder of the horrors people endured as a result of race relations in this country. The ideas from both of the readings explain how black Americans faced hatred and violence because they were viewed as less then. The writings also include how each leader is trying to change the world’s view of

“Contagious Divides” by Nayan Shah and “The Ghetto” by Louis Wirth explores prejudice and racism within different “races” and allows readers to delve into the real reasoning behind the existence of racism. “Contagious Divides” explores the racism against Chinese immigrants in Chinatown, San Francisco that developed due to the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the biased observations made on Chinese residents regarding their culture, class, health, and living conditions. “The Ghetto” touches on the Anti-Semitism, and the creation of “ghettos” as a type of community where Jewish people can comfortably reside embedded in their culture, religion and people. What the author fails to emphasize is the segregation and racism that formed due to this “natural” separation of groups and the choices that were taken away from the Jewish people.

The thesis of the book is that segregation of black and whites was developed later in life than it did when slavery was just introduce. In the earlier years blacks and white would live within the same residence and or property, sharing the same premises if not equal facilities. The black and white would attend the same church and sit in the pews. As life progress and economics and Political conflicts took place that’s when the segregation began.

This not a new problem. Wacquant points out there is an ‘epistemological obstacle’ in the study of American ghetto. Ghetto life is seen in a very diluted and negative view from outside and above (Wacquant, 1997).

Residential segregation is a wide spread topic of discussion throughout cities across the United States. With population in larger cities growing, the separation of groups into neighborhoods is common — placing different standards of living on each section depending on the wealth and race of the inhabitants. In There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub explore a new areas of Chicago and the residential segregation taking place there by creating a

In another ethnographic work, Jonathan Rieder specifies on provocative and poignant responses to racial busing by Jews and Italians living in Canarsie. In a similar class discussion, Professor Wilson points out the facts of the elimination of racial barriers helped united and destroy issues in different economic sectors. Interracial unionization eliminate split labor market between blacks and whites where blacks were granted a lower wage and thus forced to depress the wages of Caucasian workers in a competitive labor workforce. With this malfunction of racial conflicts over job opportunities, Wilson argued, racial differences shifted from the sociopolitical sectors to the economic sector, due to access to resources such as prime neighborhoods, housing, and education. Canarsie served a prime example of such shifts in the racial conflict over the politics of education and real estate.

Many inner cities within the United States are comprised of people living in poverty and many of these people are people of color. One of the largest and poorest neighborhoods in the United States is the South Bronx. The South Bronx is extensively racially segregated and the plights that the residents face are horrendous (Kozol, 1995, p. 3). It is conservative belief that the people of color that inhabit the deteriorating inner cities of the US remain in such dire conditions is attributable to their own individual choices, lifestyle, and culture. This belief that the persistence of racial inequalities is attributable to individual lifestyle cannot explain the continuance of inequality once these individuals acquire the education and skills

In George Edmund Haynes’ Conditions among Negroes in the Cities and Whitney M. Young, Jr.’s The Urban League and Its Strategy, the authors present determine factors of racial inequality in the American cities. In addition, providing concrete solutions to the societal epidemic that swept across America.

Segregation of the labor force not only helped the wealthy whites maintain power and money, but it also helped lower income to middle-class white Americans. This is because segregation “prevented blacks from competing with them for better- paying jobs.” Due to the segregation of some jobs, lower class whites were often guaranteed employment because the demand for white workers was high. This high demand was caused by a number of employers searching for white employees, and would not settle for black

Segregation proved to be powerful in the city as to this day the South Side still shows remnants of the “Black Belt.” Figure [2] below shows racial demographics of a recent census of Chicago and the resemblance to the map of covenants in figure [1] can clearly be seen. Chicago’s role as a home for it’s residents proved positive for some but problematic for most. A system that always favored the wealthy and white was true for the city and while some areas were strong enough to fight this trend, as a whole Chicago was

According to Massey and Denton (1988), residential segregation “is the degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment”(282). Now this is a pretty general definition, but it gives basic but good insight as to what residential desegregation is talking about. In this paper, I will mostly be focusing on residential segregation as it relates to the black and white populations in relation to one another, although I will be referencing some other races briefly to create a better understanding of concepts or ideas.

Racial discrimination is the main and ongoing problem in the social life of Americans. When we look at the gap of incomes between White and African Americans, we can see the inequality between these two groups. In general, whites have more annual earnings than their black counterparts in America. Lori Ann Campbell and Robert L. Kaufman emphasized that the wealth determinants, which are the indicators of socio-economic status, have effected more on Whites than Blacks. And even when society is organized, there is still some disparities on account of race and ethnicity. (Campbell and Kaufman, 2006). And income disparities between African and White Americans have definitely effected the peace of the social life. According to Campell and

For many years now the people in power or “whites” have passed laws so that other racial groups are kept at the bottom of the social hierarchy. These racial group that are kept at the bottom become racialized and oppressed therefore they become unequal to the people that are at the top of this hierarchy. The racial groups that are kept at the bottom vary from the Native-Americans to the Mexican-Americans and obviously the African-Americans. In this essay I will be comparing how the racialization process has been similar and different between these racial groups. I will also define race and racialization. Furthermore, I will explain how class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship has impacted the racialization process within these groups.

Although slavery and segregation laws are obsolete, racial inequality remains visible within our society. Throughout the course readings, one thing is for sure: the slave trade is the primary cause of racial inequality from 1500 to the present. Those sold into slavery become the property and a product of violence. Moreover, throughout the 15th to mid-18th centuries, slavery caused people to despise those who looked different from them, based on skin color. Slavery has caused numerous gaps among the privileged white community and minorities who have a history of slavery. This created a divided society based on skin color, with effects that continue to be a small part of our contemporary world.

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