American Apartheid
Which word disappeared from the American vocabulary in the 70's and 80's?
Segregation
Why was Arleen evicted?
A random man had broken her front door.
Biological adaptations take place as early as ___________.
In the womb.
One in __ children lives in poverty.
7
What is residential segregation?
The physical separation of two or more racial groups with a specific geographic area, like separate neighborhoods.
What's something people would do at an eviction riot?
Thousands of people would gather in the streets and sit on the evicted family’s furniture in protest of the eviction.
Environmental influences affect how the _____ circuitry actually gets wired.
Neural
What is the US described as in response to its child poverty rates?
Extreme outlier
Are the effects of segregation structural or individual?
Structural
What are informal evictions?
Ways that landlords evict people outside of the law without getting a court order.
If there is malnutrition during pregnancy, how does the baby react?
Prepares itself for a lack of food after birth.
What is the myth Covert discusses about how people react to government assistance?
It makes people "lazy."
What was one general ideology about Black disadvantages during the mid-late 1960's?
Culture-of-poverty argument which blames the victim or institutional racism.
Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in __ Miluake renters experienced a forced move.
8
What is a relationship-based intervention to help children experiencing mistreatment or violence?
It involves building healthy, positive relationships with kids to directly combat the unhealthy relationships they may currently have.
What percentage of families were eligible for the child tax credit passed in 2021?
Over 90%
What are the three components that make up the tangle of pathology?
The relationship between male unemployment, family instability, and intergenerational transmission of poverty.
What are at least 3 consequences of eviction?
Increased homelessness, depression, illness, degrading houses in dangerous neighborhoods, and child harm.
What are at least 2 ways, according to Shonkoff, that we can tackle the problems that arise from children living in poverty?
Providing children with healthy, stable relationships, healthy environments, and appropriate nutrition.
What happened to the child poverty rates when the tax credit ended?
Child poverty rates went from 12.1% and shot to 17%, putting 3.7 million more children in poverty.