Residential Migration Paper

Jane Addams the founder of the Hull houses is quoted "the streets are inexpressibly dirty, the number of schools inadequate. Sanitary legislation unenforced (PBS.org). These situation are similar to the current state of blacks in America today. The richer White people live in neighborhoods with proper schools and cleaner streets. Mark McQuillan state that “twenty-eight percent of White whom live in major metro areas, live in mostly white suburbs and exurbs (More Live in U.S.

During the 1916 to 1970s the great migration occurred. The Great Migration was an era when over six million African Americans relocated from the South

Many Americans wonder why once-boomtowns like Chicago and Detroit have deteriorated into little more than ghetto villages surrounded by skyscrapers. The answer may be found in patterns from mid-20th-century urban segregation. Starting around the turn of the 1950’s, segregation laws intensified between whites and blacks, as portrayed in Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, named after the final line in one of Langston Hughes’ most famous poems. This created an idea of “white flight,” as white, middle-class citizens left urban areas out of fear that the presence of minorities would devalue their neighborhood land. In Hansberry’s story, the black, lower-class Younger family compares to the pattern of white flight observed in the mid-20th century by illustrating the xenophobia of whites, the occasional sleaziness of realtors, and the boldness of the minority groups during this period.

Businesses opened in the DTES to help make money for the area to help people with less wealth

The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 was a major conflict that began in Chicago Illinois because of racial tension between black and whites because of cultural differences. The Chicago race riots is also referred to as the “Red Summer” because of all the bloodshed that took place the summer after World war 1. The race riots began on July 27th, 1919 and ended August 3rd, 1919. On the first day of the riots thirty eight people died, 23 were black, 15 were white and 537 people. The race riots are a part of Chicago’s history that had a major affect on racial, political and social problems. The riots began after the death of Eugene Williams. Eugene Williams was a young black male who drowned due to swimming at an all white beach and rocks being thrown

Lance Freeman, an associate professor of urban planning in Columbia, wanted to investigate if there was any displacement going on in two predominantly black neighborhoods that was briskly gentrifying. Much to his dismay, he couldn’t find any correlation between gentrification and displacement. What was surprising to Freeman was his discovery, “poor residents and those without a college education were actually less likely to move if they resided in gentrifying neighborhoods”. (Sternbergh, 19) Freeman adds, “The discourse on gentrification, has tended to overlook the possibility that some of the neighborhood changes associated with gentrification might be appreciated by the prior residents.” (Sternbergh, 19) Essentially, we can concur that a blighted neighborhood that goes through gentrification doesn’t displace the current residents living there, but in fact makes the residents want to stay. With gentrification the area becomes safer, more businesses open up and the neighborhoods become a welcoming, family friendly place to live. Without gentrification a blighted neighborhood stays, as is, a neglected area that doesn’t attract businesses or

After recent protests in Baltimore, Badger (2016) explores the nature of policies set in the early 1900’s that have shaped the city of Baltimore, and that continue to have an effect on their quality of life. Actions such as redlining and urban renewal have perpetuated poverty and segregation in the same neighborhoods today as 75 year ago. This article calls attention to the effect of system-wide race discrimination in Baltimore, and how policies create a cyclical link between race and disadvantage in communities.

The United States of America has, and will always be, a country where immigrants and refugees can migrate to, internally and internationally, to vastly improve their lives. During the late 19th century in the US, there was a massive influx of immigrants from all over the world, as well as movement of people already living in the US to different areas. These people were primarily seeking better job opportunities due to numerous economic issues in foreign countries and social tensions in the post-Reconstruction US. Therefore, the US became much more culturally diverse and areas were inhabited to form mini “hubs” for people of similar ethnicities and races to live together. Although internal migration in the US had a big impact

Back in the 1970s American Society’s wealth was concentrated in white families. The gain of social rights that blacks, women, and gays and lesbians received during the 60s threatened the conservative values that whites had; therefore, during this decade, the United States suffered what is called the White flight: white American people immigrated to the suburbs to maintain the values of an unified family, opposition to abortion, capitalism, and private investments that they had, leaving a desolate, hostile city landscape. The urban decay peaked in the United States when New York City, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Atlanta lost more than 10% of their population as stated by Jordan Rappaport in his article U.S. Urban Decline and Growth, 1950 to 2000. With whites’ money and values leaving, the

Many individuals/Scholars tend to characterize the 1950s as a time of conformity, prosperity, & solidarity. While the 1960s was viewed as the decade of pandemonium, chaos & rebellion. These descriptions of both decades may be accurate. But many argue that there is a correlation between the two periods.

As Kozol writes in Savage Inequalities. “The difference in spending between very wealthy suburbs and poor cities is not always as extreme as this in Illinois”(66). Throughout the years there has been an extreme problem with poverty in East St. Louis especially in the lower part where proximately african american people live. In East St.Louis there is a fine that separates the poor and the wealthy and each stay in there own lane. In north of East St Louis where predominately white people there no problem. Most people are living their happy lives and sending their kids to some of the state of the art private while a little bit across the bridge there is african american people struggling to find jobs because of the lack of resources. Most of

Golash- Boza explains, “Residential segregation happened when different groups of people are sorted into discount neighborhoods” (271). It is because of housing segregation

Many people believe that segregation has been around for forever, but it is actually a phenomenon of the 20th century (Denton, 1996). Loan lending discrimination for housing is still practiced in our society, even though it is illegal, causing increases in neighborhood segregation. For example, when White neighborhoods reach a “trigger point” for Blacks moving into the neighborhood, they move out, which subsequently perpetuates continued segregation. A study conducted in 2000 found racial residential segregation to be attributable to approximately 176,000 deaths (Galea et al., 2011). Neighborhood segregation increases the amount of minorities that live in neighborhoods that limit socioeconomic mobility by limiting access to high quality education and higher education preparation (Williams et al., 2010); neighborhood segregation also makes it more difficult for residents to adhere to healthy behaviors due to the higher costs and lower quality of healthy foods, increased advertising for tobacco and alcohol, and lack of environmental structures for physical activity (Williams et al, 2010). Neighborhood segregation can potentially impact the development of social networks, which in turn may influence employment opportunities and quality of health (Gee, Walsemann, & Brondolo, 2012; Brondolo et al., 2012; Amuedo-Dorantes & Mundra, 2007; Wagmiller,

The Great Migration started in 1916 and lasted up to the 1970s. The Great Migration was the relocation of millions of African Americans from the south to the cities of the north. This had a huge impact on the urban life in the U.S. Many people at this time were looking for jobs to provide food and a place to live for their family. But because of housing tensions many African Americans had to create their own homes within cities. And because of this it resulted in the growth of a new urban culture. An example in New York City was Harlem, which was formerly an all-white neighborhood. By the 1920s New York City housed about 200,000 African Americans.

The health issue we will discuss is residential segregation. This is the physical separation of two or more groups into different neighborhoods, or a form of segregation that “sorts population groups into various neighborhoods contexts and shapes the living environment at the neighborhood level. In addition, we will discuss a health disparity, which is defined as inequalities that exist when members of certain population groups do not benefit from the same health status as other groups. Racial residential segregation is a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health. The degree of residential segregation remains high for most African Americans in the U.S. The primary cause of racial differences in socioeconomic status is by determining