01:450:250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ernest Burgess, Residential Segregation In The United States, Urban Sociology
1 Apr 2019
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Historical geographies as active spatial forms shaping the present. Suburbanization and inner cities decline are part of the same process. They provide the pre-conditions and gentrification(week 4) The whitening" of suburbia and blackening" of the us city after wwii were driven by consumption preferences and production conditions. Residential segregation is the structural lynchpin of contemporary racial inequality (ellison and martin 1999:263) Early urban sociology treated the black ghetto as a natural" feature of ethnic. Ernest burgess of the chicago school argued that the black ghetto was similar to differetration the immigrant ghetto . African-americans were far more isolated than other from 1930 to 1980. Early ghetto formation took places through a wave of racial violence between. Between 1917 and 1920, a black home was bombed every 20 days. Intimidation, threats, and offers buyout" black homes resisted. Improvement associations were formed that lobbied city councils for zoning restrictions to discourage african-americans and adopted restrictive covenants.
