SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Steinhardt School Of Culture, Education, And Human Development, Gentrification, Social Mobility
Document Summary
40% of public school students students of color (2001) Interrelated & comprehensive set of books that summarizes and analyzes research theory and practice related to: education of ethnic, racial, cultural and language groups. Educating majority about issues pertaining to diversity. Race & class are linked urban schools. Changes in terminology tied to economic and demographic transformations of us cities post 1950s. Economic changes shift from industrial/manufacturing economies to service. In several cities, dark ghettos" replaced white working-class neighborhoods, and more often than not the transition was neither smooth or peaceful. (p 24) Emergence of uber wealthy cities - sf & berkeley. Poverty rates decreased, decline in # of low income hh. Decrease in production of low income housing, affordable housing. Emergence of high poverty cities richmond & oakland. Gentrification not so much in richmond. Gentrification slower in oakland (practically halted by housing bubble, but reemerging) Emergence of minorities in power mayors of color.
