Wilson

Question 1

In 1990’s and beginning of 2000’s what happened to the pubic attention on poor, black Americans? How was this different from the 1960’s?

Answer 1

Public attention decreased

In 60’s = it was a transfer from segregation to openly racial society

Question 2

Explain how hurricane Katrina displayed poverty:

Answer 2

Ripped through New Orleans
- Tore apart both rich and poor

But it really exposed the poverty in the ghetto there (mostly poor ppl couldn’t escape)

Question 3

How could the shock of Katrina and New Orleans been avoided?

Answer 3

If television cameras had focused on the
urban poor in New Orleans, or in any
inner-city ghetto, before Katrina, it would have been less of a shock

Question 4

How does concentrated poverty (gathering in one space) amplify the problems associated with poverty?

Answer 4

joblessness, crime, delinquency, drug trafficking, broken families

Question 5

How does redlining upkeep segregation?

Answer 5

Keeping black people in the neighborhoods they were born in

Question 6

Explain how freeway networks contributed to segregation?

Answer 6

Would route expressways through impoverished African American neighborhoods, resulting in even greater segregation and isolation

“created barriers between the sections of the cities, walling off poor and minority neighborhoods from central business districts.”

Also a specific highway follows boundaries set up by racial zoning law