MISC 155
According to Coates, what needs to be done to compensate for a history of structural racism
What is reparations
Communities that were all “minority or” in the process of integrating received the lowest rating from the FHA. This process was called
What is redlining?
According to The House We Live in, this group was in the process of securing whiteness in the 1930s-1940s and was thus an “in between people”
Who are the Irish, Italians, and Jews?
The Supreme Court ruled that he was not eligible to be a citizen since "according to Science,” he was not white
Who is Takao Ozawa?
At current pace, how many years would it take African Americans “to build the wealth of a white family today”
By 2000, more than _______ black children had a father in jail or prison —and roughly half of those fathers were living in the same household as their kids when they were locked up
What is 1 million
Between 1934 and 1962, the federal government underwrote 120 billion dollars in new housing, of which ________ went to people of color
What is less than 2 percent
According to The House We Live in and course readings, wealth and health disparities are primarily the result of
What is housing discrimination and the resulting segregation
The Supreme Court ruled that he was not eligible to be a citizen since "in accordance with the understanding of the common man,” he was not white -
Who is Bhagat Singh Thind
By 2024, on average white families had _______ dollars in wealth; comparatively, black families had ______ dollars in wealth, with Latino families possessing ______ in wealth
What is 122,366; 1,233; 1,633
Bryan Stevenson describes the importance of being engaged and involved in struggles against injustice experienced by most marginalized and oppressed as an act of becoming this
What is a stone catcher
When real estate agents prey on the racial fears of white homeowners to get them to sell their homes quickly, for less than market value
what is blockbusting
According to research, black/white differences in income, education, and unemployment with virtually disappear if you eliminated this –
What is residential segregation
What percentage of a person's wealth can be found in their home
In 1920, 1 in ___ farmers in the U.S. was African-American. Collectively, they owned nearly ___ million acres. Discrimination, institutional racism, violence, terror and the resulting great migration to the North led to massive decline in black farmers and dispossession of wealth
What is 7 and 15
It concluded that Black boys as young as 10 were more likely to be mistaken as older; perceived as guilty; more likely to face police violence if accused of a crime
Goff Study
Describes process where blacks and Latinos home buyers and renters are typically offered less information; given fewer options; shown properties in different neighborhoods; given less help with financing; required to pay more all while receiving less in terms of quality of house and neighborhood –
What is steering?
These Supreme Court cases led Japanese farmers to lose their land
What is Ozawa and Thind
White families have _______ times the wealth of black families (according to Pew)
What is 20
By 2007, the number of African-American farmers had reached 1 in ____, collectively owning only ___ million acres
What is 70 and 4.2
Blockbusting, redlining and other pressure tactics leads to a process that Coates describes as social engineering
What is white flight?
It led home value in the 8-mile neighborhood (Detroit) to increase?
Construction of a 6-foot wall in Detroit's 8-Mile neighborhood
Amid the 1000s of lynchings, majority whose victims were African American, that took place throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was accused of raping a white girl. Subsequently, a mob broke into the jail and hanged him. This lynching led one Black writer to ask, “Is the Jew a White Man?"
Who is Leo Frank?
Patrick Sharkey’s research shows that black families making $_____ typically live in the kinds of neighborhoods inhabited by white families making 30,000
What is 10,000
Name of two black businessmen discussed in class who were murdered and stripped of land and property
Isadore Banks and Elmore Bolling (you should know their place in history)