1.9 All Together Flashcards
Negativ treatment of racial groups
Lack of trust
Protection against attack
Discrimination (job related)
Language barriers
Positive treatment of racial groups
Accommodate difference
Help social group keep cohesion
Keep cultural value
Maintain cultural specific amnesties
Places have an identity
Place identities are rarely accurate and they’re e more perception.
Myth is often the basis for exclusion
Use census data to test it
Why can there be exclusion.
Middle white conservatives thinks other racial groups don’t share same values
Actions taken to exclude
Why do people segregate
They choose to or they are forced to
Based on your perspective - myths are perpetuated things that reinforce place identity
Theory 1 (invasion)
At the centre there is a black ethnic group and you get greater degree of filling
Tolerance that whites have for blacks dissolves - white flight
Whiytes move out
Blacks prefer mixed areas
Whites like up to 10% black, when it exceeds, racial instability and white flight occurs
Theory 2 people make choice
Assumptions:
Whites don’t mind blacks if blacks minority
Blacks like mixed communities minimum 30%
Black population starts to build 15-20% they (whites)decide not to buy houses
Prices come down
Blacks enter newly vacated areas at 20-30% black tipping point reached
Black population willing to enter