Sarah Mayorga-Gallo
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781469618630
- eISBN:
- 9781469618654
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469618630.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter highlights events and experiences in the lives of the Black and Latino residents in Creekridge Park and compares them to narratives from White residents. It cites the similarities and ...
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This chapter highlights events and experiences in the lives of the Black and Latino residents in Creekridge Park and compares them to narratives from White residents. It cites the similarities and differences in the ways of life of three groups. Furthermore, by presenting the voices of non-White residents, the chapter hopes to give a better understanding of the multiethnic space. The experiences of the non-White residents provide evidence for the ideological whiteness of this space.Less
This chapter highlights events and experiences in the lives of the Black and Latino residents in Creekridge Park and compares them to narratives from White residents. It cites the similarities and differences in the ways of life of three groups. Furthermore, by presenting the voices of non-White residents, the chapter hopes to give a better understanding of the multiethnic space. The experiences of the non-White residents provide evidence for the ideological whiteness of this space.
Jeannine Bell
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814791448
- eISBN:
- 9780814760222
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814791448.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
Despite increasing racial tolerance and national diversity, neighborhood segregation remains a very real problem in cities across America. Scholars, government officials, and the general public have ...
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Despite increasing racial tolerance and national diversity, neighborhood segregation remains a very real problem in cities across America. Scholars, government officials, and the general public have long attempted to understand why segregation persists despite efforts to combat it, traditionally focusing on the issue of “white flight,” or the idea that white residents will move to other areas if their neighborhood becomes integrated. This book expands upon these understandings by investigating a little-examined but surprisingly prevalent problem of “move-in violence,” the anti-integration violence directed by white residents at minorities who move into their neighborhoods. Apprehensive about their new neighbors and worried about declining property values, these residents resort to extra-legal violence and intimidation tactics, often using vandalism and verbal harassment to combat what they view as a violation of their territory. This is the first book to seriously examine the role violence plays in maintaining housing segregation, illustrating how intimidation and fear are employed to force minorities back into separate neighborhoods and prevent meaningful integration. The book provides a moving examination of how neighborhood racial violence is enabled today and how it harms not only the victims, but entire communities.The book not only enhances our understanding of how prevalent segregation and this type of hate-crime remain, but also offers insightful analysis of a complex mix of remedies that can work to address this difficult problem.Less
Despite increasing racial tolerance and national diversity, neighborhood segregation remains a very real problem in cities across America. Scholars, government officials, and the general public have long attempted to understand why segregation persists despite efforts to combat it, traditionally focusing on the issue of “white flight,” or the idea that white residents will move to other areas if their neighborhood becomes integrated. This book expands upon these understandings by investigating a little-examined but surprisingly prevalent problem of “move-in violence,” the anti-integration violence directed by white residents at minorities who move into their neighborhoods. Apprehensive about their new neighbors and worried about declining property values, these residents resort to extra-legal violence and intimidation tactics, often using vandalism and verbal harassment to combat what they view as a violation of their territory. This is the first book to seriously examine the role violence plays in maintaining housing segregation, illustrating how intimidation and fear are employed to force minorities back into separate neighborhoods and prevent meaningful integration. The book provides a moving examination of how neighborhood racial violence is enabled today and how it harms not only the victims, but entire communities.The book not only enhances our understanding of how prevalent segregation and this type of hate-crime remain, but also offers insightful analysis of a complex mix of remedies that can work to address this difficult problem.
Douglas J. Hamilton
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719071829
- eISBN:
- 9781781702321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719071829.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This chapter discusses social problems in the West Indies during the second half of the eighteenth century. Just as Scotland experienced great challenges and stresses in the second half of the ...
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This chapter discusses social problems in the West Indies during the second half of the eighteenth century. Just as Scotland experienced great challenges and stresses in the second half of the eighteenth century so too did the West Indies. The most profound disjunctions lay between the free white residents and the communities of enslaved blacks and free people of colour and this manifested itself in the maintenance of a colour bar that determined the rights that were enjoyed or denied and the kind of employment that was undertaken. This chapter considers the scale of Scottish involvement in miscegenation and describes the ways in which Scots reacted to fathering illegitimate mixed-race children.Less
This chapter discusses social problems in the West Indies during the second half of the eighteenth century. Just as Scotland experienced great challenges and stresses in the second half of the eighteenth century so too did the West Indies. The most profound disjunctions lay between the free white residents and the communities of enslaved blacks and free people of colour and this manifested itself in the maintenance of a colour bar that determined the rights that were enjoyed or denied and the kind of employment that was undertaken. This chapter considers the scale of Scottish involvement in miscegenation and describes the ways in which Scots reacted to fathering illegitimate mixed-race children.
Mieka Brand Polanco
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814762882
- eISBN:
- 9780814724743
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814762882.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This book examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood, the complex relationship between human beings and their social and physical ...
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This book examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood, the complex relationship between human beings and their social and physical landscapes—and how the term “community” is sometimes conjured to feign a cohesiveness that may not actually exist. Drawing on ethnographic and historical materials from Union, Virginia, the book offers a nuanced and sensitive portrait of a federally recognized Historic District under the category “Ethnic Heritage—Black.” Since Union has been home to a racially mixed population since at least the late 19th century, calling it “historically black” poses some curious existential questions to the black residents who currently live there. Union's identity as a “historically black community” encourages a perception of the town as a monochromatic and monohistoric landscape, effectively erasing both old-timer white residents and newcomer black residents while allowing newer white residents to take on a proud role as preservers of history. Gestures to “community” gloss an oversimplified perspective of race, history, and space that conceals much of the richness (and contention) of lived reality in Union, as well as in the larger United States. They allow Americans to avoid important conversations about the complex and unfolding nature by which groups of people and social/physical landscapes are conceptualized as a single unified whole. This multi-layered, multi-textured ethnography explores a key concept, inviting public conversation about the dynamic ways in which race, space, and history inform our experiences and understanding of community.Less
This book examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood, the complex relationship between human beings and their social and physical landscapes—and how the term “community” is sometimes conjured to feign a cohesiveness that may not actually exist. Drawing on ethnographic and historical materials from Union, Virginia, the book offers a nuanced and sensitive portrait of a federally recognized Historic District under the category “Ethnic Heritage—Black.” Since Union has been home to a racially mixed population since at least the late 19th century, calling it “historically black” poses some curious existential questions to the black residents who currently live there. Union's identity as a “historically black community” encourages a perception of the town as a monochromatic and monohistoric landscape, effectively erasing both old-timer white residents and newcomer black residents while allowing newer white residents to take on a proud role as preservers of history. Gestures to “community” gloss an oversimplified perspective of race, history, and space that conceals much of the richness (and contention) of lived reality in Union, as well as in the larger United States. They allow Americans to avoid important conversations about the complex and unfolding nature by which groups of people and social/physical landscapes are conceptualized as a single unified whole. This multi-layered, multi-textured ethnography explores a key concept, inviting public conversation about the dynamic ways in which race, space, and history inform our experiences and understanding of community.
Jill Ogline Titus
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835074
- eISBN:
- 9781469602455
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869369_titus.9
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter focuses on the group of white residents committed to the eventual reopening of the Prince Edward public schools who emerged from a semi-secret meeting at former school board chairman ...
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This chapter focuses on the group of white residents committed to the eventual reopening of the Prince Edward public schools who emerged from a semi-secret meeting at former school board chairman Maurice Large's cabin. They found a “patrol force” of PESF board members waiting outside to identify them. A car parked on a nearby public road trained its headlights upon all the vehicles exiting from Large's driveway, and attendee Lester Andrews spotted one of his friends writing down names. A story circulated that C. W. “Rat” Glenn, one of the most feared men in the county, had forced several drivers off the road in an effort to get their license plate numbers. Other attendees later claimed that PESF officials stopped and questioned them as they drove up to their homes.Less
This chapter focuses on the group of white residents committed to the eventual reopening of the Prince Edward public schools who emerged from a semi-secret meeting at former school board chairman Maurice Large's cabin. They found a “patrol force” of PESF board members waiting outside to identify them. A car parked on a nearby public road trained its headlights upon all the vehicles exiting from Large's driveway, and attendee Lester Andrews spotted one of his friends writing down names. A story circulated that C. W. “Rat” Glenn, one of the most feared men in the county, had forced several drivers off the road in an effort to get their license plate numbers. Other attendees later claimed that PESF officials stopped and questioned them as they drove up to their homes.
Ronald P. Formisano
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807855263
- eISBN:
- 9781469602325
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869703_formisano.9
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter shows that most white residents of Boston, and particularly most white parents of schoolchildren, were overwhelmingly antibusing in some way. Some fought the court orders in the ranks of ...
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This chapter shows that most white residents of Boston, and particularly most white parents of schoolchildren, were overwhelmingly antibusing in some way. Some fought the court orders in the ranks of ROAR or by acts of individual resistance. Some fled, putting their children in parochial schools or anywhere but in the Boston public schools. A few left the city. Many more during the first two years tried to give desegregation a chance by sending all or some of their children to the public schools. Hundreds of parents did more than just send their children to desegregated schools. Judge Garrity had provided that a Racial-Ethnic Parent Council be established in each school throughout the city, as well as a Citywide Parents' Advisory Council, formed entirely by parents.Less
This chapter shows that most white residents of Boston, and particularly most white parents of schoolchildren, were overwhelmingly antibusing in some way. Some fought the court orders in the ranks of ROAR or by acts of individual resistance. Some fled, putting their children in parochial schools or anywhere but in the Boston public schools. A few left the city. Many more during the first two years tried to give desegregation a chance by sending all or some of their children to the public schools. Hundreds of parents did more than just send their children to desegregated schools. Judge Garrity had provided that a Racial-Ethnic Parent Council be established in each school throughout the city, as well as a Citywide Parents' Advisory Council, formed entirely by parents.
Harris Beider and Kusminder Chahal
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781447337058
- eISBN:
- 9781447337102
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447337058.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter presents an edited transcript of a focus group discussion in Phoenix, Arizona, soon after the inauguration of President Trump. It highlights the views and opinions held by the ...
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This chapter presents an edited transcript of a focus group discussion in Phoenix, Arizona, soon after the inauguration of President Trump. It highlights the views and opinions held by the participants, which became key themes emerging from the research. More importantly, it shows a group of white residents talking about their new president, his immediate actions, and the turmoil that these actions unleashed in the United States soon after he was elected. The new president was a divisive figure in the discussions. Support for Trump was not overwhelming, but he was seen as a change candidate. Meanwhile, the disruption being witnessed on the ground was seen negatively. The new president was seen as making rapid changes that were having direct, real-life consequences. Moreover, his focus on holding binary positions was seen as avoiding complexity and without nuance. “White” as an identity emerged through the actions and experiences of “black” people and the lived experiences of differences and diversity. Claiming to live in a racially and ethnically diverse area was challenged.Less
This chapter presents an edited transcript of a focus group discussion in Phoenix, Arizona, soon after the inauguration of President Trump. It highlights the views and opinions held by the participants, which became key themes emerging from the research. More importantly, it shows a group of white residents talking about their new president, his immediate actions, and the turmoil that these actions unleashed in the United States soon after he was elected. The new president was a divisive figure in the discussions. Support for Trump was not overwhelming, but he was seen as a change candidate. Meanwhile, the disruption being witnessed on the ground was seen negatively. The new president was seen as making rapid changes that were having direct, real-life consequences. Moreover, his focus on holding binary positions was seen as avoiding complexity and without nuance. “White” as an identity emerged through the actions and experiences of “black” people and the lived experiences of differences and diversity. Claiming to live in a racially and ethnically diverse area was challenged.
Emily Margaretten
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039607
- eISBN:
- 9780252097690
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039607.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This introductory chapter presents ethnographic vignettes to demonstrate the institutional inequalities and interpersonal abuses characterizing the lived experiences of youth homelessness in South ...
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This introductory chapter presents ethnographic vignettes to demonstrate the institutional inequalities and interpersonal abuses characterizing the lived experiences of youth homelessness in South Africa. These vignettes exhibit how plans of “rehabilitation” essentially equate to evictions and arrests, by means of which poor black youth—deemed unfit for urban citizenship—are expelled from the city center. The chapter also introduces Point Place, a five-story apartment complex located between Durban's beachfront and central business district. In many respects, the youthful occupation of Point Place reflects the shifting demographic of South Africa's inner cities. It reveals the uneasy transitions of the lifting of repressive influx-control laws and the subsequent flight of white residents and capital from the city centers.Less
This introductory chapter presents ethnographic vignettes to demonstrate the institutional inequalities and interpersonal abuses characterizing the lived experiences of youth homelessness in South Africa. These vignettes exhibit how plans of “rehabilitation” essentially equate to evictions and arrests, by means of which poor black youth—deemed unfit for urban citizenship—are expelled from the city center. The chapter also introduces Point Place, a five-story apartment complex located between Durban's beachfront and central business district. In many respects, the youthful occupation of Point Place reflects the shifting demographic of South Africa's inner cities. It reveals the uneasy transitions of the lifting of repressive influx-control laws and the subsequent flight of white residents and capital from the city centers.
