Patterns of Race & Crime
Which Racial Group Has The Highest Crime Rate?
A) Whites
B) African Americans
C) Latinos/mixed
B) African Americans
Which government-backed loan programs helped expand white suburban homeownership while redlining Black neighborhoods?
FHA and VA loan programs
Which specific neighborhood has lower crime rates than the stereotypes suggest?
The immigrants neighborhoods
Is it true or false that violent crimes occurs more
False
What did HUD housing audit studies find about African Americans’ treatment during housing searches compared to whites?
They received worse treatment at multiple stages of the housing search
The authors use the "ghostly" term to describe that there are really no poor white neighborhoods.
The "Phantom reality"
What is Etho-racial inequality in crime?
It shows the rate of crime is higher where African American are heavily surrounded and lower where there is a small portion of African American.
How does the normalization of privilege help keep housing segregation invisible?
White neighborhoods are treated as the norm, their advantages aren’t questioned while nonwhite neighborhoods are racialized as problems.
This key concept of this lecture means that you cannot look at race by itself, and you must look at how race, class, and place overlap.
Intersectionality