SOC 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Housing Segregation In The United States, Redlining
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Announcement: first paper is due on wed. feb. 28th before class, can upload on bb or hand in as a hard copy: crossing borders: California deported 400,000 u. s. citizens with mexican ancestry in the 1940"s. & 1950"s & would not let them come back. State of california & u. s. never issued a formal apology to the 400,000 people deported until 2005: housing segregation: A factor directly traced back to policies of earlier generations: great migration from 1910-1930. Ta-nahesi coates the case for reparations : 250 yrs. of slavery, 90 yrs. of jim crow, 60 yrs. of separate but equal, 35 yrs. of racist housing policy, residential segregation: Neighborhoods can be either integrated or segregated. Segregation is still present after the civil rights movement. People should be in an integrated neighborhood that"s proportionate to their race: school segregation: Schools often look like the neighborhoods that they exist in, so if the neighborhood is segregated, the school will probably be too.