SOC 019 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Residential Segregation In The United States, Deindustrialization, Redlining

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 019
• Professor: Matsumoto

Document Summary

One of the oldest minority groups (first africans were in 1619) The only minority group to have been enslaved in the us. Growing internal diversity due to immigration from africa and the caribbean. A growing number of women among the poor -> feminization of poverty. 8% of married couples with children were poor. Nearly 40% of black female-headed families in poverty. A result of the disappearance of jobs. Lack of resources and infrastructure, poor quality education. 3% of the black population is middle class in 1910. 13% of the black population is middle class 1960. 38% of the black population is middle class today. Their average income remains lower than that of the white middle class. Bipolarization the class divide within the black population (between middle class & poor) Wilson: class is more important than race in determining the economic life chances of black americans (racism is a problem for lower class blacks alone)