Study guide: Desmond and Emirbayer: 4. Housing


Study guide

Desmond and Emirbayer: 4. 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.       Blacks are _____ as likely to be isolated from other groups as Hispanics and Asians.

 

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.       In a study conducted as part of the 2000 General Social Survey, researchers found that whites preferred to live in neighborhoods that were _____ percent white.

 

10.   In a study conducted as part of the 2000 General Social Survey, researchers found that Hispanics preferred to live in neighborhoods that were _____percent Hispanic.

 

11.   Which groups did 2000 sales market audit studies find were treated more unfavorably than whites?

 

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?


 

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.   What fraction of third-generation Mexican immigrants speak only English?

 

22.   The black population in the North and levels of segregation (know about)

 

23.   Surveys of blacks reveal that they are segregated in spite of what attitudes?

 

24.   Does black-white segregation do vary by social class?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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