GE CLST 20B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Populism, White Flight, Community Reinvestment Act
12 Jan 2016
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White assimilation of southern and eastern european immigrants to gain socio-economic equality with white anglo-saxon protestants. Occupational ranking by racial and ethnic groups, 1880-1970. If the melting pot was working, then all the lines from each race should be convergent with each other, but the lines weren"t. Yankee, english, and german lines are slowly converging together. Russian (jews) start becoming the model minority, doing better than the. Blacks and italians improve, but still separated from the race gain. White backlash against civil rights movement in the north by southern and eastern european immigrants assert white privilege. Protesting de facto segregation in the north. King wants to prove that blacks should be able to move anywhere as long as they have the money to afford it, not to be segregated just because of race. People felt threatened and under siege from the changes demographically (school, neighbors, churches) Generated by middle-class people who had the power to do so.
