Race & Restructuring of New York City

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"The process of economic restructuring has, over the past few decades, had an enormous impact on American cities. Among those hardest hit by changes in urban economies have been African Americans and other minorities who had the fewest options in electing to leave the central cities and follow manufacturing jobs to the suburbs and even farther afield. These same groups were equally unprepared to take on the service sector jobs that developed as restructuring progressed. It is sometimes claimed that this was accidental -- that economic restructuring is merely the product of impersonal free-market forces. But government at all levels plays a major role in restructuring and, on every level, "conflict is a central feature in which competing groups, with unequal power, strive to shape restructuring to serve their own interests" (Squires, 1990, p. 102). In New York, as in every..."

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