Peopling of NYC - segregation

More on racial steering

Professor Brooks — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:43:49 +0000

In order to illuminate this issue, I found a few more recent articles from the NY Times that discuss how "racial steering" works and why it's not simply a realtor taking into account buyers' and renters' assumed preferences:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E2DF1131F932A35756C0A9639C8B63

Segregation

Shirley Cheung — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:03:18 +0000

A chapter titled "Freedom Now" in the book Working Class New York by Joshua Freeman is about segregation in New York City, focusing on African Americans and Puerto Rican. Freeman mentions how many Afican Americans move to New York City because it was less racially segregated than anywhere else in the United States. One can get a slightly better education in New York City but discrimination in hiring negates the improvement of better learning.

"Separate But Equal =/= fair"

Shelley Jiang — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:50:36 +0000