Neighborhoods and Cities Still Segregated
2012-07-16
Despite increasing numbers of multiethnic neighborhoods in the United States, relatively few black or white families are actually moving into these them.
This segregation doesn’t just happen in the US–it’s prevalent all over the world. The Economist talks about how, for thousands of years, cities have been divided along racial lines. During the period of colonialism, white Europeans grabbed the safest, healthiest and nicest parts of the urban landscape for themselves.
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