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  2. Vantablack - Wikipedia

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    Vantablack is a class of super-black coatings with total hemispherical reflectances (THR) below 1% [4] in the visible spectrum. The name is a portmanteau of the ...

  3. Housing segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    However, assimilation varies among minority groups. Overall, Latino-white segregation is higher than Asian-white segregation. Black-white segregation is the highest when comparing all minority groups. New immigrants tend to experience higher levels of segregation than immigrants that have lived in the host country for a while. [5]

  4. Real estate - Wikipedia

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    Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

  5. Blockbusting - Wikipedia

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    Generally, "blockbusting" denotes the real estate and building development business practices which both profit and are fueled by anti-black racism. Real estate companies used deceitful tactics to make white homeowners think that their neighborhoods were being "invaded" by non-white residents, [6] which in turn would encourage them to quickly ...

  6. Redlining - Wikipedia

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    For many years, urban community organizations had battled neighborhood decay by attacking blockbusting (deceptive encouragement of white flight from neighborhoods in order to buy up real estate at a huge discount and then rent to low-income, usually black tenants), forcing landlords to maintain properties, and requiring cities to board up and ...

  7. Vantablack (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Vantablack is an extremely black chemical substance. Vantablack may also refer to: Vantablack, a 2017 dubstep extended play by Dirtyphonics and Sullivan King

  8. Blackacre - Wikipedia

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    Blackacre, Whiteacre, Greenacre, Brownacre, and variations are the placeholder names used for fictitious estates in land.. The names are used by professors of law in common law jurisdictions, particularly in the area of real property and occasionally in contracts, to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of land.

  9. Racial steering - Wikipedia

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    Racial steering refers to the practice in which real estate brokers guide prospective home buyers towards or away from certain neighborhoods based on their race. The term is used in the context of de facto residential segregation in the United States, and is often divided into two broad classes of conduct: