AMST 298 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Revolving Credit, High Tech, Commuter Town
9 Nov 2017
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American city at the turn of the century. New mass culture-mistral shows, theatres, burlesque shows. The great migration-migration of blacks from the south into these bustling cities. Occurs when a lender or insurer targets particular neighborhoods that are predominantly nonwhite, not to deny residents loans or insurance, but rather to charge them more than in a non-redlined neighborhood where there is more competition. White flight and post war suburban boom. 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various. European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions. Disappearance of industry due to relocation to other countries. Shift from heavy industrial manufacturing to high tech service industries in the us. Social capital-the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a. Used by consumers. corporate used to provide liquidity for a company"s day-to-day operations.
