In James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, his section on the Harlem Ghetto focuses primarily on the influences and effects of black media and anti-Semitism amongst blacks. He touches on how the addition of parks and playgrounds made it seem that they were happy to outsiders but really it didn’t do much for them.

The article “Communities” by Joshua Zeitz focuses on something we talked about many times this semester, which are people of the same ethnicity living in areas heavily populated with their own kind. Even today this idea exists not only in living close to people of the same race but also their children growing up together.