Study guide: Desmond and Emirbayer: 5. Housing
1. Compare segregation levels in major cities during the 19th century to what they are today.
2. What events during the early portion of the twentieth century in the United States are referred to as the “Great Migration”?
3. What factors contributed to the creation of the ghetto?
4. According the survey research discussed in your textbook, the majority of surveyed whites felt that the inner-city uprising in the 1960s were caused by what?
5. Which group has the highest residential segregation rates?
6. According to the research presented in class, “Realizing Racial and Ethnic Neighborhood Preferences? Exploring the Mismatches Between What People Want, Where They Search, and Where They Live,” which group is most likely to search in a neighborhood where the percentage of their own group is larger than in their stated ideal neighborhood? (read lecture notes)
7. Are the most affluent blacks more segregated than the poorest Hispanics?
8. With respect to Hispanics, which skin color is the most segregated?
9. Survey of Milwaukee residents
10. In a study conducted as part of the 2000 General Social Survey, researchers found that Hispanics preferred to live in neighborhoods that were _____ Hispanic. In a study conducted as part of the 2000 General Social Survey, researchers found that whites preferred to live in neighborhoods that were _____ white. (this question refers to lecture notes)
11. 2012 rental market audit studies found that _____ were treated more unfavorably than whites. (this question refers to lecture notes)
12. What are the consequences of segregation?
13. Residential segregation is related to what living conditions in the inner city?
14. Mexican repatriation programs of the 1930s (know about)
15. Why do many immigrants live in ethnic enclaves? (know the names of the theories)
16. In the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, Korean store owners suffered how much property damage?
17. What is gentrification? (read lecture notes)
18. Which neighborhoods are far more likely to have environmental hazards than white ones?
19. Who benefits from environmental racism?
20. Who must endure the “blemish of place”?
21. Carpentersville, Illinois (know about). According to your textbook authors, English as official language campaigns are being used as a new tactic of white fight.
22. The black population in the North and levels of segregation (know about)
23. Detroit Area Study (know about)
24. Does black-white segregation vary by social class?