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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"White flight"”.
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Reckoning with white-flight and faith: an ethno-theological case study of racial history and evangelical memory in postwar Los Angeles
… polarized politics of the country and the Black-white binary of its culture. Historically, white Christians had a sordid past of racism, overtly seen in those who participated in Black slavery and white supremacy. As human rights advanced, white oppression transitioned from slavery to segregation …
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Damn the city, dam the suburbs : redefining the single family home
… Starting with the upper classes of society, white Americans began leaving the city for the suburbs. Buying a home, or investing in a future home through the purchase of war bonds, was a patriotic duty. With money from the GI Bill, developments like Levittown made it easy for Americans to …
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A Song of the Bluff: The Phoenix of Pine Bluff Arkansas - Documentary
… decline, negative migration systems like white flight and brain drain, and racial disparities ties to the city’s roots has continued to take its toll on the city. Nonetheless, the community of Pine Bluff knows excellence has and continues to prosper there. A Song of the Bluff is a …
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Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city.
… growth-dependent urban planning, the reversal of white flight, and intensification of environmental racism. By figuring social equity as a product of economic and environmental resilience strategies, the rhetorical form of de Blasio's speech and OneNYC plan centralizes neoliberal market logic of …
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The gospel of justice : community, faith, and the integration of St. Andrew's Episcopal School
… of this community sheds light on how privileged whites navigated questions of integration, especially in Christian communities. Pro-integration whites in these communities utilized their faith, understanding of community, and a rhetoric of respectability to move the school towards desegregation, …
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The gospel of justice : community, faith, and the integration of St. Andrew's Episcopal School
… of this community sheds light on how privileged whites navigated questions of integration, especially in Christian communities. Pro-integration whites in these communities utilized their faith, understanding of community, and a rhetoric of respectability to move the school towards desegregation, …
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Education in West Africa
… the phenomenon of segregation, particularly white flight, and investigates its underlying causes, with a specific focus on the role of crime. There are several evidences of segregation, specifically white flight-type segregation. However, not much is known about the causes. This paper focuses …
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Education in West Africa
… the phenomenon of segregation, particularly white flight, and investigates its underlying causes, with a specific focus on the role of crime. There are several evidences of segregation, specifically white flight-type segregation. However, not much is known about the causes. This paper focuses …
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An historical analysis of the role of magnet schools in the desegregation of Riverview School District
… that established magnet programs in 1979 to stop White flight. The results of the study included information regarding the historical and political events that led to the establishment of magnet programs. Additional data examined if the magnet programs led to improved integration in the school …
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Valuing Vacancy: Land Banking and Property Governance in the U.S. Rust Belt
… Missouri were grappling with the consequences of white flight, urban renewal, and a withdrawal of federal funding on the city’s increasingly abandoned and tax delinquent housing stock. In response, the city government implemented a land bank to acquire tax foreclosed housing and other property and …
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Hope and Struggle in the Policed Inner-City: Black Criminalization and Racial Capitalism in Philadelphia, 1914-1978
… and the “culture of poverty” to convince the white middle-class to resist desegregation and support tough on crime policing in the inner city from 1958 to the present-day. However, African Americans experienced double victimization from the proliferation of these crime narratives. Police and …
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Bourdieuian Analysis on African Americans? Under-representation at Parks and Outdoor Recreation
… been a rapid increase of Black populations and white flight at cities around CHSP. Many incidents of racial discrimination were found in the history of the community and Texas state parks. Second, this study identified that (1) lack of information and encouragement, (2) lack of interest/cultural …
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The Roots of Educational Inequality: Germantown High School, 1907-2011
… the high school. This dissertation suggests that white flight, alone, did not lead to the school's transformation. Rather the deterioration of this American high school is connected, at least in part, to the dramatic decrease in the levels of private funding that residents contributed to the high …
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Music Education in Prince George's County, Maryland, From 1950 to 1992: An Oral History Account of Three Prominent Music Educators and Their Times
… and was thought by many to have precipitated "white flight" of Prince George's residents to surrounding jurisdictions. Remaining county residents voted to limit taxes for county services, creating a financial burden for the schools, the police, and the county government. Subsequently, the …
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Racing the City: Intentional Integration and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in Post-World War II America
… the political and economic narratives of white flight and urban crisis that scholars have crafted over the last two decades. This is at once the story of a group of people seeking to challenge the seeming inevitability of segregation by creating an economically stable, racially integrated …
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Sense Your Neighbor: Design for Bridging Social Capital in Diverse Spaces
… segregation, displacement, public housing, white flight, economic disinvestment, crime, historic districting, and - recently - redevelopment and gentrification. The Braddock Metro Neighborhood Plan, a small-area master plan for accommodating transit-oriented redevelopment while affirming …
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Deindustrialization and the urban landscape: race, space, and memory in Back of the Yards, 1950-1980
… and stockyard infrastructure, it argues that white ethnic residents of the community increasingly resented the growing Black labor force such that although community and union leaders fought to keep the packing plants from abandoning Chicago, the neighborhood also initially welcomed the shift …
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Essays on the economic and political effects of immigration
… (1915-1930). Black immigration and the induced white outmigration ("white flight") are both instrumented for using, respectively, pre-migration settlements and their interaction with MSA geographic characteristics that affect the cost of moving to the suburbs. The inflow of African Americans …
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Spatiotemporal approaches to understanding environmental justice and multi-contextual segregation
… central cities may be because of the influx of white suburban/exurban commuters. In contrast, no recognizable racial integration is observed in large job clusters in the suburbs––where air pollution from traffic is relatively low. At night, if white people experience higher levels of residential …
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Variables that Attract and Retain Middle-Income Families to Urban Public Schools
… Currently, urban public schools face the flight of middle-income families from the cities to the suburbs, within-district flight of more affluent families to private and parochial schools, and diminishing funds with which they must serve their populations. This study explored the factors …