POSC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Blockbusting, Financial Risk
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Chapter 16 - civil rights start: civil rights, equal treatment i. How does the history of discrimination restructure society in ways that continue to resonate? (is it enough to change attitudes?) The media: redlining *videos, what are the structural consequences (racial, consequences of discrimination? i. Ex. redlining: who should get mortgages: mortgages went up for black, financial risk = unstable socially and economically. 3. (built a wall between white/black: the suburbs, white territory* ii. iii. iv. The gov green - good: super easy to get home loan, 98% were given to white families, were able to purchase and sell, wealth= new businesses, pass down to future generations v. Red - bad: no loans were available, they were screwed ; no mortgages, african americans and minorities (latinos) lived there, got no opportunities, trapped in poverty vi. ** finally made it illegal for redlining: but still couldn"t move it, racism lives on, segregation i. ii.
