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Title: The Legacy of Redlining and Segregation on Des Moines, Iowa

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: From its beginnings, United Statessociety has differentiated groups of people based upon similarities of the people in each group. Such categorization has enabled certain groups to enjoy privilege in American and othersto suffer. For racial groups, such as African Americans, suffering has accompanied their stigmatization in the form of a residential segregation that has systematically deprived them of a basic freedom ,“a deprivation especially onerous when its basis is the unalterable fact of race or ancestry” (McEntire, 1960). Over the course of American history residential segregation has been a central theme in the discussion of the role of housing as it affects quality of life for minorities. Fair housing researchers have applied most of their analytical efforts toward cities and urban settings known to have overt racial tensions, segregation, violence and criminal activity that is most usually associated with minority populations. Such cities include Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Atlanta, major American urban hubs with large minority populations (Rothstein, 2017b). The Midwest at large, and particularly Iowa, has historically been overlooked in studies addressing social issues impacting minorities and, while that trend generally continuestoday,such research has begun to emerge in placeslike Minneapolis/St. Paul, Seattle, Portland and other locales nationally

Url: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1347&context=creativecomponents

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Authors: Landeck, Kendyl

Publisher: Iowa State University

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Housing and Segregation

Countries: United States