GOVT 2225 Study Guide - Final Guide: White Flight, Frisking, Social Mobility
15 Jan 2018
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True or false: the us is more socially segregated today (2017) than at the end of the civil war (1865, true. Geography of race and inequality: spatial patterns of segregation in the us, race and poverty, segregation measures. Index of dissimilarity: exposure and isolation indices, changes between 1980 and 2010, processes of racial residential segregation. Median index of dissimilarity for all us metropolitan areas vs. whites. What generated these patterns: post-industrial society unleashes powerful economic forces, a decline in manufacturing shifts the spatial distribution of jobs, out-migration of middle-class blacks from urban neighborhoods accelerates from the. American apartheid: our research indicates that racial residential segregation is the principal structural feature of american society responsible for the perpetuation of urban poverty and represents a primary cause of racial inequality in the united states. Separate and unequal: minorities are far more likely to live in poor neighborhoods, almost no white live in neighborhoods with extreme poverty.
