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Protest sign at a housing project in Detroit, 1942. Ghettos in the United States are typically urban neighborhoods perceived as being high in crime and poverty. The origins of these areas are specific to the United States and its laws, which created ghettos through both legislation and private efforts to segregate America for political, economic, social, and ideological reasons: de jure [1 ...
The cause of these differences in resources across similar neighborhoods has more to do with dynamics outside of the neighborhood. [65] To a large extent the problem with the ghetto and underclass concepts stem from the reliance on case studies (in particular case studies from Chicago), which limit social scientist understandings of socially ...
The origins of the hood are uncertain; it may have been appropriated from the Spanish capirote hood, [34] or it may be traced to the uniform of Southern Mardi Gras celebrations. [35] According to The Cyclopædia of Fraternities (1907), "Beginning in April, 1867, there was a gradual transformation. ... The members had conjured up a veritable ...
Slavery is still a very real and widespread problem. The slavery activity is often referred to as 'trafficking in persons' and is commonly measured by the global slavery index (GSI). The GSI in ...
In black neighborhoods the churches have been important sources of social cohesion and activism. [44] For some African Americans, the kind of spirituality learned through these churches works as a protective factor against the corrosive forces of racism. [45] Churches may also do work to improve the physical infrastructure of the neighborhood.
It isn't hard to see why there is such a yawning gap between the richest Americans and the rest of us. Since 1976, the share of national income earned by the top one percent of workers has nearly ...
In many of these newly established communities and neighborhoods, criminal activities such as illegal gambling (e.g. the numbers racket) and speakeasies were seen in the post-World War I and Prohibition eras. Although the majority of these businesses in African-American neighborhoods were operated by African-Americans, it is often unclear the ...
Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a 2008 documentary by Stacy Peralta that examines the rise of the Crips and Bloods, prominent gangs in America who have been at war with each other. The documentary focuses on the external factors that caused African-American youth to turn to gangs and questions the political and law enforcement response to ...