The Big Questions...
The main question for our IDM/LAVC/Writing Assessment.
What is - What are the costs of urban segregation?
This discriminatory practice involved banks refusing to provide mortgages to people living in minority neighborhoods, making homeownership nearly impossible for those residents.
What is - redlining?
This term describes the informal, working-class shantytowns or "cities within a city" that ring the hillsides of Rio de Janeiro.
What is - a favela?
This term describes a situation where factors like poor schools, limited healthcare, and high crime make it extremely difficult for a person or family to escape being poor.
What is - a poverty trap?
While the financial district is connected by wider & paved ______, the favelas are defined by narrow, unpaved, and unplanned ______ that make it difficult for emergency services to enter.
What is - Roads?
This is where urban segregation takes place (think about the two countries we've talked about).
What is - The United States & Brazil?
Popular from the 1920s through the 1940s, these legal agreements were written into property deeds to prevent African Americans from buying or renting homes in specific areas.
What are - racially restrictive covenants?
Favelas first began to form in the late 1800s due to this new government legislation.
What is - the abolition of slavery?
This 1968 law was intended to end racist housing and lending practices, yet Chicago's neighborhoods remain as separated today as they were decades ago.
What is - the Fair Housing Act?
Out of Brazil's 211.8 million people, the top 1% of the population holds this specific—and massive—percentage of the nation’s total wealth.
What is - 28.3%?
These are the causes of urban segregation.
What is - (Multiple Answers Work)
According to the text, a typical white person lives in a neighborhood that is 75% white, while a typical African American person lives in a neighborhood where this percentage of their neighbors are also African American.
What is - 45%?
Favelas saw a massive surge in growth during the 1930s and '40s because migrants were ______.
What is - looking for work but could not afford proper housing?
In Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods, this many areas are considered highly segregated with a population that is at least 90% Black.
What is - 20 neighborhoods?
In the financial district, buildings are made of glass and steel; in the favela, they are made of exposed red brick and scrap metal. These visual differences are a direct result of this major difference in how the areas were created.
What is - government planning? (Also accept: unplanned vs. planned development)
The 2nd supporting questions for our IDM/LAVC/Writing Assessment.
What is - What are the economic consequences of urban segregation in the Americas?
This 1956 legislation resulted in the physical division of neighborhoods along racial lines and contributed to a "spatial mismatch" by placing low-skill jobs far from the urban core.
What is - the Federal Highway Act?
This is the approximate percentage of Rio de Janeiro’s population that currently resides in favelas.
What is - 24%?
Data from the charts shows a direct correlation between these two factors, which are often concentrated in segregated Black neighborhoods compared to majority white ones (look at the first & third chart).
What are - poverty and crime?
Using the Chart (look at the chart): There is a clear correlation between race and money - This first racial group holds the most wealth in the nation, while this second racial group possesses the least amount of wealth.
Who are - White Brazilians and Black Brazilians?