Segregation and Integration.

Article 2: Fences and Neighbors: Segregation in 21st-Century America

This article is about how there is still segregation within living and how although the amount is decreasing there is still segregation in living conditions and the neighborhoods that different races live in. How it is more likely that in Southern and Metropolitan areas there is more integration rather than in Northern areas where integration is processing slowly. Also how money is the popular cause of segregation, due to the fact that people with similar money situations usually live amongst each other.
Personally I find this to be true because I know people that like in the metropolitan areas in New Jersey and Ohio. I know people that live in the south in Florida.



Segregation rates for other rates are rather low less than half these minorities are Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, Asian Americans and the 1/3 of Native Americans that's do not live on segregated reservations. " No other minority group faces the extreme segregation in housing  that African Americans do other groups face segregation of varying levels and have not seen significant downward trends." (Farley and Squires pg.2)
I found it interesting that our segregated living situations are honestly the worst of all minorities I've always had that idea in my head about that but I figure it was Hispanics too and I didn't know that any Native American lived off the reservations and that even their living situations are less segregated than ours.



"Although African American have long been and continue to be the most segregated group, they are notably more likely to live in integrated neighborhoods than they were a generation ago." (Farley and Squires pg.1)
This quote stuck out the me because I can relate to it on a personal level. I have a friend that lives by eastern parkway, I live in Bushwick for a long time my friend was telling me I lie in the hood what not until my friend came to visit me and when my friend was waiting for me at the train station I went to meet them and when we were walking to my house my friend said "I didn't know so many white and Spanish people live over here" I said "yeah so what does that mean", "that you don't live in the hood" I said "but I told you that I don't live in the hood." my friend said "I didn't know so many of white and Spanish people lived over here though." So because of the kind of people that live in my integrated neighborhood this means I dont live in the "hood" at least according to my friend. Which I found interesting.




Signed; The Outlook Blogger.