SOC 0829 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oscar Lewis, Institutional Racism, Transitional Fossil
29 Jan 2017
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American apartheid: segregation and making of the underclass: Debate on the persistent cause of poverty: culture, racism, welfare, economics. Culture: oscar lewis la vida , culture originated in persistent unemployment. Racism: douglas glasgow and alphonso pinkney, institutional racism. Economics: william julius: the truly disadvantaged , structural transformation of economy, decline in manufacturing base, out migration of middle class black families. Arguments incomplete missing link segregation. The construction of the ghetto: the separation of blacks and whites was not always so before 1900, blacks and whites lived side by side. Index of dissimilarity: captures the degree to which blacks and whites are evenly spread among neighborhoods in a city, under 30 low, 30 to 60 moderate, above 60 high. Creating the ghetto 1990-1940: push and pull forces, industrialization in the north: Black out migration grew end of 19th century to first decade of new century. Communal riots 1900-1920: new york city 1900, evansville, indiana 1917, chicago 1919.
