AMER 1002W Chapter Notes - Chapter All: United Automobile Workers, Federal Housing Administration, Deindustrialization
24 Oct 2016
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Created a lot of machines for army. The underclass debate - unemployable and racial minority. Culture of poverty - poor are poor because theres a culture of being poor. Conservative - people choose to be poor. Sociological - people don"t have equal opportunity. Cities abandoned - federal government doesn"t spend as much on larger cities as it used to. Surge"s thesis - (racism + residence + work + politics) x history = urban crisis. M-c-m = money invested in commodities for greater return of money. Comes from paying workers less than the actual value of their work. Agency = individual"s ability to act on own free will. Agency is limited by social and political structures. Restrictive covenants - main formal control to sustain color line. Red lining - they would color code which areas/neighborhoods were safe to invest in an which weren"t - african american neighborhoods were often coded red - unsafe to invest in.
