Edgar Allan Poe Symbolizing Baltimore

Another obvious symbol is the bust of Pallas, the Goddess of Wisdom. This use is symbolic as it leads the narrator to believe that the raven speaks

Despite increased diversity across the country, America’s neighborhoods remain highly segregated along racial and ethnic lines. Residential segregation, particularly between African-Americans and whites, persists in metropolitan areas where minorities make up a large share of the population. This paper will examine residential segregation imposed upon African-Americans and the enormous costs it bears. Furthermore, the role of government will be discussed as having an important role in carrying out efforts towards residential desegregation. By developing an understanding of residential segregation and its destructive effects, parallels may be drawn between efforts aimed at combating

A Home to a well educated black middle class because of institutions like Howard University, DC, unfortunately, experienced a similar urban issue that was the same as with many US cities beginning in the late 1960s. After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., “the segregation-era black enclave around U Street was left gutted by rioters, a trauma felt through subsequent decades” (Miller, 2012). DC had an influx of black people and poorer people as the middle-class residents left for the suburbs. With a declining tax base, “the city's schools and service institutions could do little to counteract the atmosphere of hopelessness and frustration pervasive in poor black neighborhoods” (Miller, 2012).

It determines where should malls , starbucks , parks , industries , power plants be established. Segregated baltimore has given the white community an upper hand ,because better resources are allocated near them.According to the theory of social privilege, “if you are labeled white, you possess privileges connected with an ideology based on beliefs, values, behaviors, habits, and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin color.”(Family 1). The racial difference would then influence the establishment of residence. It would also influence the environment in the residence . For example, “it show how whites in many US cities enjoy a disproportionate share of environmental amenities, such as access to parks and open space, clean air, and tree.”(Boone 2).It shows that ,accessibility to the cleaner environment is also influenced by the racial prejudices.We all know that Industries are the backbone for development ,but they also create a lot of environmental problems to the surrounding areas.If so then,where would these polluting sites be more likely to be established? In a white neighbourhood or In a black neighbourhood ?

The article "Michael Brown and Black People” that was published on The New York Times on August 13, 2014, and written by the author Charles

There are more people of the Hispanic and Latino race in Baltimore now than in the 1980’s. The number of African

My first reaction after watching the video Fault Lines- Baltimore- Anatomy of an American City was that city Baltimore is obviously a dangerous city and there is crime everyday. While anyone can commit a crime, in this particular video it was mainly blacks that were spoke about, I feel that they themselves sold drugs and killed people with guns because that’s the only way of life they knew and were not brave enough to change it for the better. The dealing of drugs was apparently big at one time and more arrest’s meant more money to the state, in order to stop violence and crime with guns, this meant trying to arrest each and every person they thought look suspicious. It seems to be that the black people feel it’s a “war on blacks” and think they are the only ones that we are after but it’s very untrue, it was said by the black man incarcerated that basically if you are of black color then you are going to jail. If people would be more open minded and stopped dragging out slavery from years ago, they would realize that we are not automatically arresting every black person that walks the street, it’s a pattern in Baltimore and it’s up to the ones that live there to change the pattern, prove us wrong and show us that it’s not a war on blacks but a war on drugs.

Understanding that the poverty of black Americans did not just stay within the home is a big step in understanding urban poverty. Urban poverty reached outside the home, into the parks, schools and playgrounds. With poverties reach being that extensive, there was something other than adversity causing this. Louis Gates wrote an article about this called “Black America and The Class Divide.” (Jr.)

It took a deeper look into the total population, the education, income and poverty levels of both the African American and the white non-Hispanic community. When we sit and compare these numbers we see that the difference in the total population of African Americans and whites is extremely significant. Majority of the black community is living below poverty which is an effect of many causes. Some of the causes are low education rates and low household income. Because individuals do not finish school its then harder for them to find legal jobs. Although Baltimore is known for its crime rate as well as its extremely high poverty level there is still some good within the city. The national harbor brings in thousands of dollars each year and also brings hundreds of tourists into the area. The city of Baltimore is also known for its secondary educational facilities it produces and its medical hospitals. The ACS gave us a deeper look at the things people don’t see when they think of the great city of

Growing up in Baltimore is “oppression by a force is the act of ‘imposing on another or others an object, label, role, experience, or set of living conditions that is unwanted, needlessly painful, and distracts from physical or psychological well-being” (Black & Stone 104). Baltimore is a place where because of the crime, it is very hard to move into a world beyond the crime and personal struggles, and even if a person somehow finds a way “privileged status allows the privileged to remain insulated and distant from the oppressed.” (Black & Stone 97). Unlike majority of whites, blacks live in urban neighborhoods with ghettos.

However, Wacquant brings the term “inner city” to light, breaking down its meaning: “black and poor.” Living in Chicago gives one an exemplary example of the term “inner city” meaning “poor, black ghettos.” The references to “inner city” schools being synonymous with “poor quality” and “mostly African American” are damaging to urban terminology and creating a predetermined perspective of those who call the “inner city” home. The “hypersegregation” of the city of Chicago is a topic within itself, but the institution of segregation is, without question, existent here. In addition, “inner city” is becoming a label which implies unavoidable incarceration.

I the article Race the Power of an Illusion, Dalton Conley says, “the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s really marks both an opportunity and a new danger in terms of racial relations in America. On the one hand, the Civil Rights era officially ended inequality of opportunity. It officially ended de jure legal inequality, so it was no longer legal for employers, for landlords, or for any public institution or accommodations to discriminate based on race. At the same time, those civil rights triumphs did nothing to address the underlying economic and social inequalities that had already been in place because of hundreds of years of inequality.” (Conley pp 1). What goes on in the American ghetto is not as glamorous as Hollywood makes it out to be now, this film does a great job at depicting what life in the ghetto for black teens is really like. The ghettos in America are full of broken culture that is left behind from centuries of oppression by the white man. Most teens like those in the movie never make it out of their neighborhoods alive. Thousands of kids die every years from gang on gang violence, damaging all chances of them escaping the ghetto and making something of themselves. Death, gangs, and drugs is the more common way that young people are left with to deal with a life of poverty and survival that seems to have no escape.

I read an article about the time when LeBron’s House got vandalized with graffiti. He explains how no matter how much money you have, or how much fame you have, it is tough to be an African American in America. There is no amount of money that can protect you from racial oppression of black people. LeBron felt unsafe and when someone put those racist words on the front gate of his house he lost some peace of mind. This article explains how a lot of African Americans feel unsafe in this world. It also talks about how blacks have a higher chance of going to jail, getting suspended from school, live in poverty, and get killed in encounters with the police than white people.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s failed housing campaign and the Bronzeville Project exhibit this disjointedness through black middle class Chicagoans ignoring the socioeconomic class divisions within Bronzeville by using institutionalized racial barriers as a conduit to produce a narrative of collective discriminatory practices faced by all blacks preventing social and financial equity for the race. However, these

In the video by Marvin Gaye ”Inner City Blues” this clip demonstrates Systemic and Institutional racism because it shows us how in today's society that the government gives to African American race only to take black’s success by impeding them from moving up to an equal position society of success. The video shows us that the world is accustomed to blacks being defined as minorities living in poverty and young black boys and girls growing up in tough neighborhoods. In the video, the audience views violence within blacks being treated with brutality by white police officers and this also gives us the understanding of institutional racism toward the black male figure . In Marvin Gaye’s video “Inner City Blues” reflects how by putting blacks in