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Black children raised in highly segregated communities of color make $4,000 less per year than Black children raised in white neighborhoods, and $1,000 less than those raised in integrated ...
Residentially segregated neighborhoods, in combination with school zone gerrymandering, leads to racial/ethnic segregation in schools. Studies have found that schools tend to be equally or more segregated than their surrounding neighborhoods, further exacerbating patterns of residential segregation and racial inequality. [40]
The article is an interactive blog post, "part story and part game". [1] [2] It has a model consisting of a society of blue squares and yellow triangles, presented in a grid. [3] [4] At the top of the article, a crowd of triangles and squares are wiggling. [5] Just under, it says, "This is a story of how harmless choices can make a harmful world."
Residential segregation persists for a variety of reasons. Segregated neighborhoods may be reinforced by the practice of "steering" by real estate agents. This occurs when a real estate agent makes assumptions about where their client might like to live based on the color of their skin. [133]
Cincinnatians love to tell stories about their neighborhoods, but sometimes numbers tell those stories better than we can. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other sources show how segregation ...
According to Jonathan Kozol, in the early 21st century, US schools have become as segregated as they were in the late 1960s. [16] The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University says that desegregation of US public schools peaked in 1988. As of 2005, the proportion of Black students at schools with a White majority was at "a level lower than in ...
Syracuse is one of more than 130 communities that shared $3 billion in federal awards this year to reconnect neighborhoods segregated by highway planners in the 1900s.
Racial segregation in Atlanta has known many phases after the freeing of the slaves in 1865: a period of relative integration of businesses and residences; Jim Crow laws and official residential and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration from the late 1960s onwards.