SOC 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Racialization, Great Depression, Federal Housing Administration
Document Summary
U. s. is more racially segregated today than at conclusion of civil war. Segregation levels in major cities in 19th century were less than half of what they are today. Start of 20th century: majority of blacks in northern cities lived in majority-white neighborhoods. End of 20th century: majority of blacks lived in majority-black neighborhoods. During 20th century, many european immigrants were able to move out of the slums and assimilate into the white american mainstream. Many moved north for agricultural and manufacturing jobs. Whites blamed them for depression era unemployment. By end of 1930s, over one-third of all u. s. mexicans were repatriated: 2 million had been repatriated to mexico, more than half were u. s. citizens. Many tribes were terminated between 1953 and 1973. By 1990, more than 60 percent had been relocated to cities. Great migration from the rural south to the urban north: between 1910 and 1960, over 4. 5 million blacks migrated north.
