Inner City Segregation

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This paper examines how segregation is still a prominent problem in urban inner cities throughout America today. It looks at how Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton, in their work, "American Apartheid", outline the causes of segregation in inner city as primarily the fault of realtors, bankers, and wealthy, white suburbanites, who move out of cities in search of cleaner living. William Julius Wilson, in his work "When Work Disappears", also acknowledges the predominance of segregation in urban inner cities. It discusses and demonstrates how both works support the fact that racial segregation is an issue in inner cities and how both provide different theories as to the cause.

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"Massey and Denton also point out that other minorities do not face the same segregation that blacks do. In certain neighborhoods or "chocolate cities" the use of BEV or black English vernacular has become common, further segregating the black and white populations . Black children who grow up speaking segregationist BEV have a more challenging time in school, and experience culture shock when presented with traditional English grammar . On page four, the Johnson Administration is quoted as stating " discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life, they now threatened the future of every American. ""

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