Is Integration Possible Causes and Effects of Racial Segregation in United States Urban Areas

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Is Integration Possible? Causes and Effects of
Racial Segregation in United States Urban Areas

• Segregation is the adultery of an illicit
  intercourse between injustice and immorality.
  Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Tasha Phillips

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Integration v. Intersection

• Intersection- presence of various races at the
  same place and time
• Integration- practice of interaction between
  those of different races in all aspects of daily
  life

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Causes

• Income gap
• 1999 adjusted black-white wage ratio was 85
• 1999 unadjusted black-white wage ratio was 72
• Note Adjusted wage ratio is the expected wage
  assuming equal levels of education and job
  experience of whites and blacks

• Purchasing Power
• Urban v. Suburban housing
• Land value
• Less money less choice

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Race/Ethnicity Entropy Index
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Income Entropy
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Race and Income Entropy
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Modern Day White Flight

• Agree with mixed neighborhoods, but not their own
• Good place to raise children

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Effects

• Respect
• Drugs
• Violence
• Schools
• Work

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Respect

• Campaign
• Protection
• Asserts status
• Participating in street activities

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Drugs

• Acknowledged but accepted
• Respect
• Way out
• Assistance

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Violence

• Drug trade
• One violent action another violent action
• Gangs
• Sense of family outside the home
• Initiation

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School

• Street life spill
• Lack of academic success
• Maintain street life
• Sellout or Acting white
• Avoidance of upper level courses

• Exaggerated residential demographics
• 62 black residentially and 80 black
  academically
• Lunchroom segregation
• At lunch were around the people that we want to
  be with.
• Connection to urban neighborhood?

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Work

• Statistically significant or not? Group effect
  relative to whites

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Work

• Womens work v. Mens work v. Residence

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Work

• Work v. Residence

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Solutions

• Workplace as a stepping stone
• Coexistence

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Workplace

• Requires effort on both sides
• Start small and go large
• Interracial relationships (other than friendship)
  can lead to
• Interracial children
• Integrated families Automatically integrated
  communities

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Problems with Workplace Integration

• Cornel Wests theory of scholars
• Race-distancing elitistsdistance themselves and
  identify all that is wrong with the black race
• Race-embracing rebelsdenounce whites and create
  excuses
• Race-transcending prophetsfurther the struggle
  and assist in the betterment of the race

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Conclusion

• Segregation in America today is caused by various
  prejudice thoughts, though sometimes
  unrecognized, that have created problems for
  finding solutions.
• Integration or Intersection?

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Thank You