GEG 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: List Of Shopping Streets And Districts By City
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North american cities differ from others (especially during the 19th century) in terms of great migration. Brought upon notion that a cultural ethnic identity marks space, as well as occupation (i. e. montr al, new york) Important factor in urban conflict rooted in ethnicity, culture, religion, race; new to urban places; need to figure out how to deal with ethnic variation on social scales. Immigrants viewed as clogging streets, stealing food, and raising taxes. Irish were viewed as the blacks of the 19th century in new york; perceived to be a racial groupirish came in vast numbers, did not speak english, and were overwhelmingly catholic (in a protestant american society) Racism is built into the fabric of the city and immigrants only enhance that racism (white vs. black parts of churches, black vs. white cemeteries) Irish would work for less than blacks, who were only used as backup employees.
