Arguments Against Racial Segregation

Throughout the years, the federal government of the United States has created policies to endure the segregation of African-Americans in both conservative, rural areas of the world, as well as in liberal, metropolitan regions such as San Francisco. Specifically, within Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, certain organizations, including the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and the United States Services Organization (USO), explicitly demonstrate signs of racial segregation within urban communities. Building separate public housing for African-Americans and whites, conditioning the layout and surroundings of these houses, and questioning African-American men for proof of employment, all support how policies within chapter one and two of The Color of Law link to current patterns of racial segregation. Correspondingly, structural functionalism, Eurocentrism, Weberian theory, and conflict theory, are theories depicted from The Real World that explains the reasoning for racial segregation today.

With the high demand and low supply of war workers, African-Americans were given the

In fact, the TVA concluded where someone would live based on their race. Created in 1933, the TVA was meant to bring jobs and economic growth for those suffering from the Great Depression. However, when Franklin D. Roosevelt created the nation’s first public housing, the targeted group were individuals who have not been engaged in defense work. Since race determined someone’s living situation, those who identify as white profited from model villages. African-Americans, on the other hand, lived far away from the model villages. When officials were asked why, the FHA answered with “Negroes do not fit into the program” (Rothstein, 2017, pg. 19). This relates to the concept of Eurocentrism since the FHA believed African-Americans were less of a white