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[https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicagos-250-year-history-of-segregation/ by Zachary Leiter 30/8/23 THE CHICAGO REPORTER] | [https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicagos-250-year-history-of-segregation/ by Zachary Leiter 30/8/23 THE CHICAGO REPORTER] | ||
That last fact is key, because in the United States, where you live determines your school choices, your social services, your job opportunities, and your safety. It determines how heavily you’re policed, how easy it is to access fresh food, and how much government investment your community receives. It determines whether you breathe clean air and have access to clean water. | That last fact is key, because in the United States, where you live determines your school choices, your social services, your job opportunities, and your safety. It determines how heavily you’re policed, how easy it is to access fresh food, and how much government investment your community receives. It determines whether you breathe clean air and have access to clean water. | ||
=====The Racial Segregation of American Cities Was Anything but Accidental===== | |||
[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-federal-government-intentionally-racially-segregated-american-cities-180963494/ by Katie Nodjimbadem 30/5/17 Smithsonian] | |||
It’s not surprising to anyone who has lived in or visited a major American metropolitan region that the nation’s cities tend to be organized in their own particular racial pattern. In Chicago, it’s a north/south divide. In Austin, it’s west/east. In some cities, it’s a division based around infrastructure, as with Detroit’s 8 Mile Road. In other cities, nature—such as Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia River—is the barrier. Sometimes these divisions are man-made, sometimes natural, but none are coincidental. | |||
