WEEK 5

• Section 1: Patterns of wealth distribution and acquisition in United States
• Section 2: Racial segregation in US cities

INSTRUCTORS: Denise Anthony and Richard Wright;

Jeff Sharlet X-Hour

 

WEEKLY LEARNING GOALS

1. Know and describe the current distribution of income and wealth by race in the United States
2. Identify the government policies that have contributed to the differential acquisition of wealth over time
3. Consider and analyze the implications of differential wealth over generations in the US
4. Understand the causes and consequences of black residential segregation
5. Understand how residential racial segregation and residential diversity can occur at the same time in the same places
6. Understand how the forces that segregate blacks might differ from the causes that produce residential concentrations of other racialized groups

 

READINGS

• Lui, Meiszhu, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson. 2006. The Color of Wealth. New York: The New Press. Chapters 1, 3,6
• Shapiro, Thomas, Tajana Meschede, Sam Osoro. 2013. “The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Explaining the Black-White Economic Divide.” Institute on Assets and Social Policy. 
• Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton 1993 American Apartheid Chapters 1 and 2
• Steven Holloway et al. 2012 “The Racially Fragmented City? Neighborhood Racial Segregation and Diversity Jointly Considered,” The Professional Geographer, 63, 4, 1-20
• Massey, D. S., & Tannen, J. (2015). A Research Note on Trends in Black Hypersegregation. Demography, 1-10.

X Hour Readings

• Mather, K., Rubin, J., & Holland, G. (2015, March 2). Video of LAPD Killings Turns Harsh Light on Skid Row. LA Times. Retrieved from: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-skid-row-shooting-20150303-story.html#page=1 
• Winton, R. and Mather K. (2015, March 4).Man Killed by LAPD Officers on Skid Row Was Cameroonian National, Feds Say. LA Times. Retrieved from: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-skid-row-cameroon-20150304-story.html

• Mather, K. (2015 March 19). LAPD identifies sergeant, officers in fatal skid row shooting. LA Times. Retrieved from: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-names-skid-row-shooting-20150319-story.html 

• The Associated Press (2015 April 20). Baltimore on Edge After Arrestee’s Fatal Spine Injury. The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/04/20/us/ap-us-suspect-injured-baltimore.html 

• Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. (2015 April 27).Baltimore Enlists National Guard and a Curfew to Fight Riots and Looting. The New York Times. Retrieved http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/us/baltimore-freddie-gray.html 

•  (Links to an external site.)Puente, Mark (2014 September 28). Undue Force. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved from:http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/police-settlements/ (Links to an external site.)

• Ericson, Edward (2015 April 24). What happened to Freddie Gray?: Former cops and arrestees shed light on the question tearing Baltimore apart. City Paper. Retrieved from: http://www.citypaper.com/news/features/bcpnews-what-happened-to-freddie-gray-former-cops-and-arrestees-shed-light-on-the-question-tearing-baltimore-20150424,0,7544144,full.story 

• Grandin, Greg (2015 April 28). Days of Rage in Baltimore and Mexico. The Nation. Retrieved from: http://www.thenation.com/blog/205513/days-rage-baltimore-and-mexico 
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi (2015 April 27). Nonviolence as Compliance in Baltimore. The Atlantic. Retrieved from: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/?utm_source=SFFB 
• Johnson, Madison. For Grandma (2015 April 29). The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved from: http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-happiness-here/article/2015/4/29/for-grandma-on-violence/#.VUC5ywi_KjY.mailto (Links to an external site.)