RACIAL ROADBLOCKS
- Editore:
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller e.K.
- EAN:
9783639092578
- ISBN:
3639092570
- Pagine:
- 364
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione RACIAL ROADBLOCKS
This study investigates race-related challenges in Oak Park, Illinois, a metropolitan Chicago community nationally known for achieving long-term racial diversity. Since its 1968 Open Housing Ordinance, Oak Park has maintained white residential demand, an achievement elusive to most communities facing racial change. However, despite its racialstability, this study argues that Oak Park facesseveral racial roadblocks to successful diversity. In-depth interviews with forty Oak Park households,half black, half white, indicate these roadblockscreate a color line in which black and whiteresidents experience the community in somefundamentally different ways. The study's findingsand recommendations have relevance beyond the OakPark community. As growing racial and ethnicdiversity characterize the 21st century Americanexperience, it is essential that new strides occur ineradicating the residential segregation that persists in many of our nation's metropolitan areas. Communities desiring successful long-termdiversity will find the study's unique insightsvaluable when striving toward this vital nationalgoal.
