AFAM 2000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Racial Segregation In The United States, Jim Crow Laws, Urban Renewal

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: African American Studies
• Course: AFAM 2000H
• Professor: Gardner

Document Summary

The reality of residential segregation by race. Whites are more likely to live in degregated neighborhoods. The extreme segregation of blacks is far more severe than anything experienced by latinos and asians in the us hypersegregation . Hypersegregation: african american segregation in relation to other minorities. African americans more likely to live in mostly african american cities. This segregation by race is not attributed to class. And in a very real way, barriers to spatial mobility are barriers to social mobility . One of the most prolonged disadvantages through prolonged exposure to segregations (and to the ghetto, in particular) is educational failure. Datcher points out that moving a poor black male from his typical neighborhood to a typical white neighborhood would raise his educational attainment by nearly 1 year. Datcher also found that growing up in a poor and predominately black neighborhood lowered male earnings by at least 27%