White supremacy has persisted: Jim Crow laws, redlining, mass incarceration, and the list goes on.
White supremacy has persisted: Jim Crow laws, redlining, mass incarceration, and the list goes on.
Consider the negative consequences -- economics, health, politics, education, etc. -- on Black Americans' lives.
Here's a link to a great resource on the New York City official website that provides a history of redlining, along with a discussion of its persisting negative legacy.
"Policies like redlining show us that poverty isn’t a bit of bad luck, inability to find a good job, or not working hard enough. Poverty is deeper and more powerful: generations of deprivation and disinvestment withholding resources, opportunity, wealth, and health from people and neighborhoods - often, driven by racism."
Here's a link to a great resource for teaching about redlining, which includes a searchable map by neighborhood so that students can see how redlining shaped their own community, along with a lesson plan using primary sources:
Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America