Tag / segregation
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Collective Memory And Trumpian Politics
Collective memory – the shared memory of a group, often constructed and reconstructed over generations – was crucial to President Trump’s 2016 victory and is currently being used to mobilize his loyal base. His pervasive “Make America Great Again” tagline comes with the implicit assumption that America was once great and is no longer so.…
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Segregation In The West Bank: The Case of Hebron
The lively marketplace of Hebron resembles the souqs of other Palestinian cities, with people crowding the narrow streets, stands selling shawarma and falafel every twenty feet, kids running around, and friends meeting for tea and argeelah in cafes. You would think you were in the old city of Nablus or even some parts of Ramallah—until…
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A Tale of Two Cities
The Delmar Divide stands as a ghost of its racial history. The phrase, coined to find a way to summarize revealing census data showing a wide disparity marked by the street of the same name, signifies St. Louis’s understanding of its most economically divided area. But the phrase also imparts an incomplete view of not…
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Is it the Government’s Job to Prevent Resegregation?
BY GRACE PORTELANCE Most modern, rational people believe that laws segregating a population based on race or class are morally wrong. Most people also believe that no law should tell people where they must or must not live. However, preventing concentrations of homogenous populations was and continues to be a focus of social engineering efforts…
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Racial Segregation Indices in Metro Areas, From Past to Present
BY DANIEL RAGGS III
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St. Louis: A Segregated City
BY GOVIN VATSAN Segregation in the United States has existed since our nation’s inception. Although it has gradually been removed from our laws, segregation still lingers in our society, especially in the inner cities. St. Louis is one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States. But just how has this segregation lasted…
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Coming to Terms with “Self-Segregation”
Washington University has a self-segregation problem. The problem does not lie with the communities centered around certain identities, but with the criticism and labeling of such groups as “self-segregating.” This term takes the word “segregation,” which is inextricably linked to a century of legalized oppression and applies it to individuals who find value in hanging…
