is possible that you will not see a question over everything on this list. Chapter 6: Characteristics of urban and suburban areas Urban-suburban shifts over the past 50 years Deindustrialization Corporate movements Mortgage lending practices and redlining Gentrification Slumlording Warehousing Health care and urban areas White flight Urban sprawl Poverty rates and urbanity/suburbanity The informal economy Effect of suburbanization Jobs/housing mismatch Triage Self-fulfilling prophecy and urban areas
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Gentrification the process of neighborhood change that results in the replacement of lower income residents with higher income ones. Revitalization • The process of enhancing the physical‚ commercial and social components of neighborhoods and the future prospects of its residents through private sector and/or public sector efforts. Physical components include upgrading of housing stock and streetscapes. • Commercial components include the creation of viable businesses and services in the community
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the inability of people to have equal opportunity (Fonza and Owen). Social inequality and urban poverty are such rampant problems today due to systematic racism‚ pay inequality‚ and gentrification. Through discriminatory federal processes such as redlining‚ minorities still struggle to regain lost footing from decades previous. A large portion of this is the government’s part in exacerbating “existing social inequalities‚ particularly those related to race and ethnicity in the United States…‚” and
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According to Nicole King‚ "Race is a word and a category that can simultaneously denote a person’s color‚ caste‚ culture‚ and capacities‚ oftentimes depending on what historical‚ political‚ or social forces are at work". A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is an attempt to examine the impact of racial discrimination on the life of an ordinary black family. It is also a testament of this family struggling to manage with racism and poverty in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago’s Woodlawn
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that I choose was African American. They faced prejudice‚ segregation and Racism. It was hard for African Americans to do just about anything. They did not have Many opinions when it came down to their decisions. Dual labor market and redlining in The early stages of African Americans emancipation not many African Americans had Education or access to equality higher education. Even when they were forced into lower Labor markets if they had the proper education they would start
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on the institution today.” The history of policing can be a directly correlated to the current practices and policies of police. There has been a history of crime in inner cities‚ which due to policies implemented in the past (an example would be redlining)‚ are now primarily the home to people of color. Crime happens everywhere‚ in every community. People in suburban American may not be surrounded by “inner city crimes‚” but there are other issues‚ for example a problem with higher end and more expensive
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African Americans they had working there. I met all the requirements of the job and some. I called the EEOC and a couple of days later they offered me a position. This is still a great opportunity for African Americans to advance as a race. The redlining effect still happens. Some financial institutions have made it very hard for some people to get loans and mortgage approvals based on their neighborhood. I
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Chicago theory of crime was founded in 1920‚ and has been referred to as “Social disorganization theory” (Bohm‚ 2011). The Department of Sociology attempted to identify __Environmental factor associated with crime __How a specific neighborhood’s crime related to that neighborhood’s characteristics (Bohm‚ 2011). This was the United States 1st large-scale study done to explain why crime occurs and became the platform for many future studies (Bohm‚ 2011). Chicago School earned a reputation as the
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– Civil Rights Act Civil Rights legislation was passed by Congress in 1968 prohibiting housing discrimination as building owners cannot refuse to sell or rent house because of a person’s ethnicity‚ race‚ sex or religion. The act also prohibits redlining. However‚ a report of the U.S. Conference of Mayors indicates that Hispanics and African Americans are twice as likely as whites to be denied a mortgage loan (Patterson‚ p. 136‚ 2009). Civil Rights Movement during the 1940s When African American
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Wetback‚ spic and beaner are a few of the words people use when talking about a Mexican. Mexican Americans have been the victim of discrimination throughout the history of the United States. Mexicans have a very big stereotype against them. One of the main reasons that they are discriminated against is because of their illegal immigration into the United States. Like many other groups Mexicans immigrated to the United States in search of a better life. Many Mexicans are left with no choice but to
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