Sheryll Cashin
Auteur van The Failures Of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream
Over de Auteur
Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University, is the author of The Agitator's Daughter, The Failures of Integration, and Place, Not Race. She is a frequent commentator on law and race relations on NPR, CNN, ABC News, and MSNBC.
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Werken van Sheryll Cashin
The Failures Of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream (1817) 90 exemplaren
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality (2021) 34 exemplaren
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White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Georgetown University law professor Sheryll Cashin looks at how the idea of Black inferiority as far back as Thomas Jefferson to justify enslavement led to segregation after the Civil War. This, in turn, led to practices in the twentieth century like redlining, racial zoning, and the refusal of banks to loan to Descendants over decades and how these exclusionary practices still resonate today in Black communities in US cities.
As whites first began moving to segregated neighbourhoods at the turn of the twentieth century and later, as Black neighbourhoods began to spread because of the Great Migration, to the suburbs, more resources were allotted to these wealthier white neighbourhoods, leaving Descendants trapped in what became known as ghettos. Since most government resources and services are tied to taxes, Black neighbourhoods continue to lack, for example, reliable transportation, health services, as well as public schools which as Cashin shows, 'are more segregated than they have been at any point in the last 50 years', resulting in an inferior education for Black children. All of this has meant little opportunity for change for Descendants today. Yet, despite the lack of needed services, there is always government money enough for constant policing and surveillance in Black neighbourhoods,
White Space, Black Hood is an important book, well-written and well-researched but Cashin's ability to avoid academic language makes it a very compelling and highly readable book, one that anyone who cares at all about continuing inequality should read - I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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