Explain how the concepts of residential segregation, redlining, and white flight are interrelated.
What will be an ideal response?
1. After the Great Migration blacks moved into urban centers looking for work, places that were prior to that time predominantly white working-class neighborhoods.
2. After World War II, the FHA created new housing policies that benefitted white families by affording them access to homeownership – they left city centers to live in segregated white suburban communities.
3. Blacks were left out of this historic moment of access to homeownership for average Americans through discriminatory lending practices like redlining. Thus, they were not able to apply for mortgages or move out of the cities like many whites were.
4. When black families did start to move into predominantly white suburban neighborhoods after the Civil Rights Movement, many whites left the neighborhoods – taking their affluence with them.
5. As a result of these patterns we still live in highly segregated communities today in the U.S. (though more so based on social class than race – but racial segregation is also still relevant).
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A) construction worker B) truck driver C) garbage collector D) messenger
Explain the difference between values and norms
What will be an ideal response?
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a. the Civil War b. World War I c. World War II d. the War in Iraq