writting an essay wondering about hypersegregagtion of African American in metropolitain areas today
2007-04-23 19:32:39 · 3 answers · asked by ant2cool316@sbcglobal.net 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Hypersegregation label distorts social reality.
COPYRIGHT 2003 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Byline: Bruce Murphy
MILWAUKEE _ Perhaps no label associated with Milwaukee is more derogatory than "hypersegregated." It was invented in the late 1980s to shine an even more negative light on those metro areas already rated as among the most segregated, and it has become a badge of shame.
The authors of the term, University of Pennsylvania professor Douglas Massey and State University of New York at Albany professor Nancy Denton, are among the best known experts on black-white segregation in America. The term they coined, hypersegregation, has generated nearly 100 newspaper and magazine stories in the last 14 years, and has become a standard way to describe many American cities.
But a recent study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee contradicts the idea that in supposedly hypersegregated cities like Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Buffalo and Indianapolis, blacks have almost no social contact with whites. A significant portion of African-Americans in these cities actually live on blocks that are 20-99 percent white, the UWM study shows
In short, the evidence shows Milwaukee is more integrated than the average American city and is not now and probably never was hypersegregated. So how did Massey and Denton reach their damning conclusions?
Their 1993 book, "American Apartheid," offers the most detailed explanation of their theories. The book is a slashing attack against this country, arguing that 25 years after the civil rights revolution, America was as badly segregated as...
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2007-04-23 20:04:09 · answer #1 · answered by debijs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From Google:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=+hypersegregation
Lots of stuff there
2007-04-24 02:45:51 · answer #2 · answered by Twisted Maggie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow....check the link
2007-04-24 02:40:05 · answer #3 · answered by ♥misshotlikefiya♥♪ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋