SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Sharecropping, Hidden Valleys, Some Cities
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Filled with immigrant ghettos - irish, jewish, italian. Cabrini green and robert taylor homes - affordable housing near to employment and free from unscrupulous absentee landlords (252) deindustrialization and the changing metropolis. The institutions above became institutional ghettoes - combination of low income, public policy and community hostility kept non-white urban groups concentrated in certain areas (least desirable areas) Civil rights movement - many africans challenged the deprivations and isolation of the urban ghettoes = riots. Fire (finance, insurance, real estate) enterprise - employers that remained in downtowns. Employment was unlikely as they required professional education. You can only be a custodian or security guard. Where jobs were didn"t match the credentials of the people living there. Became a place of danger and mystery (253) the making and unmaking of the post-industrial city. Asians continue to look for work in the textile industry in ny. Investment in older urban areas is up but unclear if its benefitting the poor.
