Essay On Segregation And Segregation

To begin with, racial segregation has been a problem and it has a direct link with poverty. Thus, it is important to understand what segregation is and how it works. Generally, segregation is a system that retains groups of citizen separately, by using social stains. One of the bright examples of this was the Southwest parts of Yonkers before the court approved the scattered-site housing plan. A few decades ago, when public housing was built, there were no choices given to the low-income poor people in the decision-making process for affordable housing. Consequently, we have experienced racial isolation existing in the Southwest parts of Yonkers. Yonkers is not the only one who practiced segregation in USA. a 1993 study of suburban in Chicago

It has even strong relation with infant mortality. The absolute volume of research carrying a connection between poverty or socioeconomic level and infant mortality is splendid (LaVeist 1990). It is axiomatic to state that poverty has been enduring component of the African American reality. Indeed, some scholars have had difficulty distinguishing impoverished. Some researcher has used race as an indicator of poverty status. The establishment of important fact is relevant that poverty is more prevalent among African American than among White American. In cities with a high level of segregation, a larger proportion of the black population lives below the poverty limit. However, a city's degree of segregation is not significantly related to white poverty. In “A Tarnished Yonkers Survives but Finds That It Still Suffers” illustrated that Yonkers has stumbled on the edge of bankruptcy many stage in the last 20 years. Consequently, it has obtained to arc to the carelessness of the state-appointed Emergency Financial Control Board. As a consequence the board dragged out in 1980, when Yonkers struggled to recover its financial dependability about 4 years. However, according to the executive director and counsel for the control board member named Peter F. Davidson, by 1980 the Yonkers was on the ropes again. At that time financially the city was unsustained that it gambled having to close its schools. So that is no wonder that because of the reasons, more students didn’t get enough facilities which lead them to the financial crisis. In my other class, we have learned that in Buffalo why they don't catch up with other cities even though they didn't have segregation problem. The writers mentioned in that article that Buffalo could not produce new entrepreneurs, as a result, there was big bust imposed. So that is no wonder that the Southwest Yonkers lived below the poverty line because