Residential Segregation
Policies
Policies
Residential Segregation can be defined as
What is the physical separation of a socially defined group within a spatial context
What is the mission of the child welfare system
A mix of local, state, and federal sanctions that are imposed on a convicted felon-post incarceration
What are civil penalties?
The governments efforts for equal access to education for Blacks after the Civil War. There was $3.5 million spent in setting up schools for children and adults who were newly freed slaves, yet was discontinued in 1872 and replaced by states that reduced public funding for education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
A system of governmental laws, programs, benefits, and services that are designed to protect against the broadly distributed risks to income and general well-being inherent in a marked economy
Drawbacks of Gentrification can be
- Programs did not live up their promise to make low-income Black and Hispanic public housing residents an integral part of the urban redevlopment
- displaced low-income residents to other hyper-segregated public housing
- Has not diminished the social barriers between Black and White residents
Prohibited child welfare agencies from denying or delaying adoptive placement on the grounds of race
What is the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997?
The Higher Education Act of 1998 is a prime example of a Civil Penalty. What does the act do?
The Higher Education Act of 1998 delays or denies federal financial assistance for higher education to anyone convicted of wither sale or possession of illicit drugs in state or federal court.
An 847 page report released that argued for a need to change the education of Native Indian children.
What is the Merriam Report?
What were the main ways grassroots advocacy groups fought back?
Demonstrations, marches and sit-ins brought attention to the stigma and unfair treatment regarding welfare
The Conflict Theory can be defined as
What is the residential segregation to keep non-White groups from gaining access to the privilege and power of the neighborhood of the racial majority?
What is the Racial justification movement?
What is one role Social Workers play in the mass incarceration movement?
Social Workers have advocated for the ending of mandatory minimum sentencing for non-violent drug related crimes. They also call for policies that address the mass incarceration, and have proposed treatment-oriented alternatives rather than prison.
An act that required each state to show that race was not an admission criteria to apply and attend a university. If it was apart of the criteria, the state had to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color.
What is the Morrill Act of 1890?
Provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of federal old-age benefits, various categories for the needy, and unemployment compensation laws
What is the Social Security Act of 1935?
A residence's property value can be determined by the access to some of society's rewards and privileges.
A lack of access to these rewards leads to the enforcement of social inequality. Some of these rewards are...
What is education, health care, quality housing, goods and services, a range of fully functioning municipal services and the opportunity to build household wealth through home equity
This agency investigated reports of child abuse and neglect, filed complaints in court against alleged perpetrators and assisted courts in prosecution hearings. Their mission was to remove children rather than family preservation, and the families investigated were mainly poor and immigrant. They were judged on the standards of the White, protestant, and middle class values and morals.
What is the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (SPCC) ?
The Black Codes gave all White citizens the right to act as a police officer for the detection of offenses and the apprehension of offenders. How has this become the mechanism for controlling Blacks on the debt of imprisonment?
The Black Codes set the focus on Blacks and Black men, and basically criminalized blackness on the grounds of minor infractions.
Focuses on standardized testing rather than a holistic view of academic achievement. Mandates intrude too much on education, which has usually been within the power of the states.
What are the criticism of No Child Left Behind?
Provide assistance to needy families so children can stay in their own homes, prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, reduce dependency by promoting job preparation, encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.
What are the purposes of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families?
In response to the Great Migration of Southern African Americans to industrial cities, local municipalities radicalized their public spaces. Urban cities restricted Blacks to particular segregated enclaves in the least desirable parts of towns, which became known as ghettos.
What is Racial Zoning Ordinances
The welfare system seeks to monitor, regulate, and punish poor Black mothers for their failings to meet White middle-class standards of motherhood. White middle-class values do not focus on the strengths of families of color, but rather on the dysfunction associated with poverty.
What is the Racial Disproportionality movement?
1 of every 3 Black males, 1 of every 6 Hispanic males, and 1 of every 17 White males.
What is the rate of men who can expect to go to prison in their lifetime?
Why was it harder for Black Veterans to utilize the G.I. Bill than their White counterparts?
Jim Crow legislation, Black colleges did not offer education or degrees higher than a Bachelor's or degrees in medicine or engineering. Black colleges were also small and under funded and resourced.
To furnish financial assistance to needy children who were living with relatives in family homes but were deprived of normal support and care