AMER 1002W Chapter Notes - Chapter All: Kerner Commission
24 Oct 2016
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Segregation forgotten in post civil rights political and academic discourse (from 1968 to. Us moved toward 2 societies - white and black - separate and equal. Black poverty would reach all time low in 1973. By 1980, ghetto conditions worse than ever. American apartheid thesis: segregation is the structural lynchpin . Dissimilarity index - can numerically show how segregated americas neighborhoods are. Shows what percentage of whites or blacks would have to move neighborhoods in order for each neighborhood to have the same diversity as the whole city. Isn"t just about minorities. whites are just as hyper segregated. Says areas are hyper segregated if they have 4 out of 5 following attributes: isolation, unevenness, clustering, centralization and concentration. Massey and denton look at social class argument rst: The look at the incomes of african americans and see that even rich african americans had a lot of trouble nding houses in non-african american neighborhoods.
