As seen, I drew only Highway 99 and the two rivers as physical markings on the map. I did that to approximately orient the viewer and also show that even physical boundaries were not constant boundaries for the school lines. I did not draw out the roads on this map for two reasons. One: our school district covers a large amount of space and drawing the streets out would have made the boundary lines look very muddled and made it difficult to see any other markings on the map. Two: the streets did not make a significant difference in how the boundary lines were drawn if you look at the map logically. For example, the border between Davis and Gregori is drawn by streets, but it is not one singular street, they zigzag along several housing developments that are fairly new. None of them wanted to go to a “ghetto” high …show more content…
Beyer was built in a field to accommodate for the housing developments that were planned to be built over the next ten years; it is no surprise that those neighborhoods have always been primarily white despite our overall community being a melting pot. Johansen was built to finally give a school to Empire and South Modesto a high school, despite these being long-standing communities known for being very poor areas with gang violence. They also happen to bring together two opposing gang territories. Enochs was built to accommodate new housing developments, despite being only a mile away from Beyer and the older neighborhoods. Gregori was built when Salida was expanding with new developments and certain neighborhoods in Davis district were degrading. These lines are the result of white flight in my own community, and it really saddens me. I saw these stereotypes keep a lot of people from joining together as a community for a lot of my life because even among adults, there was the neighborhood divide symbolized by each
Ethnicities wanted to be with their own race. This began the movement of the development of ethnic neighborhoods. Although many et...
The western style 2013 Australian feature film Mystery Road centres around indigenous detective Jay Swan as he investigates the murder of indigenous teenager Julie Mason. Swan’s continued struggles to convince the rest of the local police – who all happen to be white males – to help him to solve the case lead him to find a drug ring. Sen represents the idea that indigenous people do not receive justice through the construction of Jay Swan and the unjust way the rest of the Indigenous community are treated by the white community and predominately white police force, encouraging my empathetic response. Sen also explores the police as corrupt and apathetic. In recent years, all over the world, but particularly in Australia in the 1980’s onwards,
Newark began to deteriorate and the white residents blamed the rising African-American population for Newark's downfall. However, one of the real culprits of this decline in Newark was do to poor housing, lack of employment, and discrimination. Twenty-five percent of the cities housing was substandard according to the Model C...
The downgrading of African Americans to certain neighborhoods continues today. The phrase of a not interested neighborhood followed by a shift in the urban community and disturbance of the minority has made it hard for African Americans to launch themselves, have fairness, and try to break out into a housing neighborhood. If they have a reason to relocate, Caucasians who support open housing laws, but become uncomfortable and relocate if they are contact with a rise of the African American population in their own neighborhood most likely, settle the neighborhoods they have transfer. This motion creates a tremendously increase of an African American neighborhood, and then shift in the urban community begins an alternative. All of these slight prejudiced procedures leave a metropolitan African American population with few options. It forces them to remain in non-advanced neighborhoods with rising crime, gang activity, and...
The next measure was residential segregation. This measure has an effect on interracial friendship and racial composition through the opportunities for contact. This is measured by the levels of racial segregation in the adolescent’s neighborhood.
From slavery to Jim Crow, the impact of racial discrimination has had a long lasting influence on the lives of African Americans. While inequality is by no means a new concept within the United States, the after effects have continued to have an unmatched impact on the racial disparities in society. Specifically, in the housing market, as residential segregation persists along racial and ethnic lines. Moreover, limiting the resources available to black communities such as homeownership, quality education, and wealth accumulation. Essentially leaving African Americans with an unequal access of resources and greatly affecting their ability to move upward in society due to being segregated in impoverished neighborhoods. Thus, residential segregation plays a significant role in
The gap between the nation’s best and worst public schools continues to grow. Our country is based on freedom and equality for all, yet in practice and in the spectrum of education this is rarely the case. We do not even have to step further than our own city and its public school system, which many media outlets have labeled “dysfunctional” and “in shambles.” At the same time, Montgomery County, located just northwest of the District in suburban Maryland, stands as one of the top school systems in the country. Within each of these systems, there are schools that excel and there are schools that consistently measure below average. Money alone can not erase this gap. While increased spending may help, the real problem is often rooted in the complex issues of social, cultural, and economic differences. When combined with factors involving the school itself and the institution that supports it, we arrive at what has been widely known as the divide between the suburban and urban schools. Can anything actually be done to reverse this apparent trend of inequality or are the outside factors too powerful to change?
Understanding what residential segregation is an important factor in being able to understand the concepts of the negative acts that are practiced by realtors and banks in order to further segregate individuals based of their race and/or income. According to The Color of Justice, “Racial and ethnic segregation in housing has been the result of several factors: the historic practice of de jure segregation, covert discrimination, and group choice. In the South and some Northern communities, local ordinances prohibited African Americans from living in white neighborhoods (Walker, Spohn, and Delone, 2012).” These acts of segregation are just as common as someone brushing their teeth, no matter where you may be north or south this form of segregation is in full effect all over the world. For example “In the North, many property owners adopted restrictive covenants that prohibited the sale of property to African Americans and Jews (Walker, Spohn, Delone, 2012).” Although this form of segregation may divide minorities it has become more of a personal choice.
In many areas of our country, there is still neighborhood segregation. Realtors and homeowners that conspire to sell only to white in order to keep black and other races out.
In this artist statement I plan to address a borderland space in reference to neighborhoods, also known as redlining. I also plan to discuss the discrimination associated within these particular neighborhoods. A description of goals of the work that I produced and lastly what inspired me to specifically choose this borderland space.
Proponents of this idea argue the building was designed to force a middle-class, white lifestyle on a lower class population, without regard for the fact that lower class, rural black residents were not instilled with values like taking pride in upkeep in environment and were prone to destructive behaviors. This concept is based on the idea of defensible space, that certain “populations” unavoidably bring with them the behavioral problems that have to be designed against, which Pruitt-Igoe’s design failed to do. They argue there is a direct relationship between physical environments and human behavior, and Pruitt-Igoe had too much public space relative to private spaces that the residents didn’t feel a responsibility to maintain leading to vandalism and
From 1940 to 1970, Ferguson was an almost exclusively white neighborhood due to loan guidelines that deemed the loans as “too high risk if they were used in racially integrated communities” (Sharkey 2014). However, Ferguson is now approximately sixty-five percent black due to a majority of white families moving out of its neighborhoods. This trend in movement is known as “white flight”.(documentation of white flight) It has left vacant buildings and homes sit in disrepair leaving the community to decay. This also effects the ability to communicate effectively to its government due to the racial and economic disparity that doesn’t allow for shared experiences and beliefs. Tom van der Meer and Jochem Tolsma address this notion in their article “Ethnic Diversity and Its Effects on Social Cohesion” and explained that “blocked communication and a lack of reliable knowledge about shared social norms stimulate feelings of exclusion and aimlessness” (2014: 464). They further state that the level of segregation affects the ties and social bonds a community has with each other thus resulting in a high level of anomie. Durkheim believed that society is controlled through the moral power of the social environment and this is fueled by the “common ideas, beliefs, customs and tendencies of societies”
Prior to reading the course materials concerning ethnic space, I initially sought to predict possible descriptions for an ethnic space, by incorporating class discussions and themes into my thought processes. As a result, I contemplated that perhaps, the definition closely resembles either an area with one main ethnic group, or conversely, an area filled with many diverse ethnic groups. Subsequently, I read the essays regarding ethnic space, in order to infer the meaning of an ethnic space. In particular, the essay by Robert J. Rodino provided considerable insight on the subject of ethnic enclaves. According to Rodino, an ethnic enclave occurs when a particular ethnic group of people live amid the dominant ethnic group (Rodino 94). Even though this definition carries a political connotation, it still provided a degree insight to my understanding. However, when Rodino used the term “ethnic community,” in the context of an ethnic enclave, I recognized the relationship between the two (Rodino 100). That being said, an ethnic community, or space, is a component of an ethnic enclave. The idea of an ethnic community resonated with me to appropriately express an ethnic space. Therefore, I decided to incorporate that into my interpretation of an ethnic space, along with my personal experiences. All things considered, an ethnic space is when a city displays a prominent cultural ambience, due to the prevalent ethnic group within that area. Similarly, due to my contrasting cultural experiences, Rowland Heights displays this prominent cultural environment, due to the prevalent ethnic group of the city. On the whole, these factors contribute to the ways in which Rowland Heights appropriately exemplifies this classification of an ethnic
Purtill, Maureen. 2009. A Call for Critical Race Studies in Urban Planning. Critical Planning. 16: 218-222
This essay’s aim is to analyze both the constructs and implication constituting social cohesion as well as which area-based programs are best suited to regenerate disadvantaged neighborhoods. After introducing the various components of social cohesion, this essay will delve into existing area-based programs targeted at improving social cohesion,