SOC 258 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Rust Belt, Racial Segregation In The United States, Consumerism
Race & Class in Chicago (Laverta Garner)!
3 cities:!
Industrial city=made Chicago metropolis that it is (steel mill, slaughter houses, etc)!
De-industrialized rust belt city=city represented more by working class than poor people and "
" " black and brown folks. !
Global neoliberal resurgent City-city living in now. !
Global City=!
“History never repeats itself, but sometimes it rhymes” !
Conjunctures:!
-New social and economic conditions.!
-New cultured beliefs and ideas.!
-New political forces and alliances. !
•“Hour glass” economy(but really more like a coke bottle shape)=!
•Outside on top of bottle is the investor class/capitalist class (1%). !
•Inide bottle:!
•Top(“Creative class”-people moving/restarting the cities; artists/entrepreneurs). Group
want to be a part of. !
•Middle (Old industrial sector)-old unionized jobs now being pushed to side.!
•Bottom (Service sector)-growing part of economy but low wage, uncertain, unstable,
insecure.!
•Lowest(Reserve)-people that are unemployed. !
White=Northside. However are exceptions to all. !
Disproportionately black and brown clustered on sides (disproportionally poor and middle
class)!
Pilsen? Where does that fit in?!
1/3 Chicago disproportionately affected. !
Also hyper-segregation of black poor-not talked about as much but very pronounced in Chi. !
"-flight/moving of black middle class families from poor black areas. !
Black poverty reduced (cut in half) from 1960-went from 1/2 to 1/4!
Underclass culture=black poverty due to gang culture, intense consumerism of reign of nike,
and Ghetto trance (celebrate rejection of all things white culture). NOT TRUE!!
More insecure as group (Economically insecure)-even when black made to higher sector still
face this instability/insecurity. !
New proletariat-new working class. Illusion of urban high class lifestyle (eating at restaurants
every night,) but in reality this involves much more struggle, and much more job instability/
insecurity. !
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Document Summary
Industrial city=made chicago metropolis that it is (steel mill, slaughter houses, etc) De-industrialized rust belt city=city represented more by working class than poor people and. Global neoliberal resurgent city-city living in now. black and brown folks. History never repeats itself, but sometimes it rhymes . New political forces and alliances: hour glass economy(but really more like a coke bottle shape), outside on top of bottle is the investor class/capitalist class (1%), inide bottle, top( creative class -people moving/restarting the cities; artists/entrepreneurs). Group want to be a part of: middle (old industrial sector)-old unionized jobs now being pushed to side, bottom (service sector)-growing part of economy but low wage, uncertain, unstable, insecure, lowest(reserve)-people that are unemployed. Disproportionately black and brown clustered on sides (disproportionally poor and middle class) Also hyper-segregation of black poor-not talked about as much but very pronounced in chi. Ight/moving of black middle class families from poor black areas.
