Orange Street Neighborhood : The Three Black Neighborhoods

The purpose for writing this essay is to demonstrate how gentrification is shaping the Culture and identity for Halrmites from the socio-economic perspective. Harlem has changed dramatically over the last two decades due to improvement in housing stock and outside investments into the community. However, in my essay, I articulated my ideas toward the economic aspect of gentrification because gentrification is driven by class, not race. My audience would be the lower income Harlem residents who have been displaced or on the verge of displacement because their wealth is not contributing to the economy. The people who have been preserving the cultural identity of Harlem for decades now forced to leave the community. I tried my best to connect a broader audience by explaining the deteriorated housing condition of Harlem and how it led to gentrification. This will help reader

In Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto, Shelby argues that the urban poor’s refusal to work in legitimate jobs or engagement in criminal activity is justified as it does not violate the principle of reciprocity or neglect civic obligations. Shelby’s arguments focuses on determining whether or not deviant behavior is reasonable from the perspective of justice and reciprocity in society. This principle of reciprocity is derived from Rawl’s doctrines such as the basic structure of society and justice as fairness. In this paper, I will reconstruct Shelby’s argument that deviant behavior does not necessarily violate an individual’s civic obligations. I will argue that Shelby’s dichotomy of moral and civic obligations is arbitrarily defined

Over the years, our generations’ stereotypical views over the issue on young black males being viewed as dangerous has grown significantly. There are different reasons why these stereotypes occur in our society. People feel on edge when running into them in dark passageways, whenever it’s late at night. Also, while they’re sitting at red lights and notice someone walking towards their cars, they instantly initiate down the door locks. People think stereotyping black men this way keeps them safer because they assume the worst. However; other people disagree with instantly judging who they see around them, it hurts more people as well as themselves by viewing black men this way. Brent Staples, the author of “Black Men and Public Spaces,” claims that he’s considered a stereotypical black criminal. In his essay, Staples succeeds because he successfully appeals to people’s emotions, is an expert on human behavior, creates common ground and offers a logical solution.

Washington Heights is a unique and ever changing neighborhood at the mezzo-level, but affects the macro and micro. It located in upper Manhattan that is north of Harlem and south of Inwood. Begins on 115th street, it is typically thought to end around Hillside Avenue. This neighborhood has the Hudson River on the west and the Harlem River to the east. New York City’s Community Planning has designated Washington Heights and Inwood as Manhattan Community District 12. These two communities are similar in their ethnic populations, make up the tip of the borough of Manhattan, and are often assessed by the government as one district. The 2003 New York City Community Health Profile reported that 270,677 people living in District 12 and “one in two

This all seems great, a savior program that allows people who cannot afford to pay rent normally. Section 8 is utilized by the elderly, disabled, and families with and without children but is it really a golden program? Stated above, section 8 provides for vouchers for all types of apartments and even condos in certain states; however, are these opportunities open to all races? 41.6 percent of African Americans are on housing assistance programs, as in this county’s displaced history on minorities, the voucher program produces elements that affect minorities. Although African Americans make up the overall higher percentage when it comes to housing assistance programs, according to National Low-Income Housing Coalition, surprisingly Caucasians make up 49 percent of the project-based section 8. Yet, National Low-Income Housing Coalition mentions that African Americans as of 2010 shows that black and Hispanic public housing residents are four times more likely than their Caucasian counterparts public housing residents to live in high-poverty neighborhoods. Black and Hispanic voucher recipients are about three times as likely as their white counterparts to live in high-poverty neighborhoods. Analyzing this data; furthermore, as of 2010, 28 percent of white voucher recipients live in the lowest poverty neighborhoods! Reviewing this data Caucasians obtains overall nationwide more voucher approvals that African Americans living in the highest of poverty neighborhoods and that comes

I found many interesting parts about African American Baptist churches and how it all started and what caught my eye was the very first African American baptist church was the oldest and it was constituted at Silver Bluff about a year or two before he revolutionary war and started early in 1775. The silver bluff was located on the South Carolina side of Savannah River in Aiken County and was only twelve miles in distance from Augusta, GA. In my findings it shows that the founders by the name of Andrew Bryan, George Liele and it was in the 1770s Savannah’s First Baptist Church and it was an independent during the slavery era. It also showed that there was a large number of black baptist secretly worshipped meetings on their own. The black baptist

Imagine being taunted for having to wear potato-sack dresses because of poverty, or growing up in impoverishment American housing projects. Two of the most famous people had to go through those trails in their life, but made it out VERY successfully. Oprah was raised being taunted for having to wear potato-sack dresses because of her poverty. Oprah now has a television network called OWN. She is a talk-show host, a book club president, an actress, a producer, a magazine owner, a satellite radio station owner, a philanthropist, a lifestyle guru, and a single-handed president picker. The other is an African-American born into impoverished American housing projects, Jay-Z. He is now the current CEO of Roc Nation and his net worth is an estimated $450 million. Even though neither of these people hadn’t come from lovely backgrounds, they had various trials, and tribulations, but they made it through and became some of the most successful people in the world. Growing up in a rough environment can be extremely hard. It can either make or break a person. From home life, to schooling, to jail systems, and the streets being an easy backup. growing up in this environment can be huge deals in the success of young African Americans.

The United States has always been a country that has functioned on the basis of capitalism and focused on economic gains and stability. The reproduction of the slave system seems to be inextricably connected to race in America, as well as underlying political, social and legal systems that operate in society. Multiple scholars have noted that the social world that is existent today is a result of the economic agenda that is concentrated in politics. The carceral state alone reveals how African Americans in the United States are caught in the institutions that dictate and extort their identities in order to contribute to a system that is set up for their downfall. From slavery, Jim Crow in the south and the ghetto of the north, to the Hyperghetto and prison system of today, the United States has operated through different forms of labor from different, dominant social types that range from slaves to lowly skilled workers to criminals. In order to change the capitalist system that creates loopholes that ensure the imprisonment and lack of fundamental rights and resources for African Americans, it is important to analyze and consider the prison and convict leasing systems, prison abolition and blackness as criminality as a whole.

​The rise of African American churches played a vital role in advancing the Civil War because it brought the issue of morality into the slavery debate. Created in protest, the Black church, prior to the Civil War represented the first occasion of Black rebellion among the secret churches of the slave community, and in the liberated Black churches in the North. Black congregations nurtured a sense of hope and self-expression, laying the basis of Black power and freedom. They understood that the “…Christian Gospel was a gospel of liberation … and … refused to accept an interpretation of Christianity that was unrelated to civil freedom.” (Westley 1). Northern church members Richard Allen and Absalom Jones created the first African American church by walking out of a Methodist Episcopal Church in protest due to the discrimination they had experienced. They started the African Methodist Episcopal

The outcomes for the Southern Park Heights neighborhood are consistent with the issues that urban African Americans face. These outcomes are a result of the continuous cycle of poverty that urban African Americans go through. Urban African Americans do not have the same resources available as middle-upper class neighborhoods. Southern Park Heights statistics are a prime example of the level of violence in the urban communities influencing the safety of the residents. The homicide incidence rate in Souther Park Heights is 43.7 per 10,000 residents, this is 22.8 numbers greater than Baltimore City. The health outcomes are also an example of the impact of family structures; many urban African Americans are raised in single parent homes influencing

The main problem that young Africans Americans have to live life in fear everyday, just hoping they will not get killed. It also concern me that African American neighborhood should have ways to fix the drug addiction, and not have the main income from selling drugs to support their family. It also have this unsafe environment of paranoia and fear that drugs are involved in the neighborhood because of how uncontrollable the addiction can be, makes it unthinkable on the action that cause on someone or the whole community. Young African American to not experience the fear everyday just like Coates book, Between the World and Me, about living fear and paranoia of just walking in a black neighborhood expecting to be jump by a group of gangs who

Life in the ghettos was unbearable at times many people didn’t live a long time in ghettos. Diseases were going around and there was no treatment for it. Most people were getting shot down in streets as target practice because the Nazi soldiers didn’t have a lot to do but ride around and shoot Jews. Majority of the ghettos were set up to segregate Jews from the rest of the population, they use to starve the Jews the most food they would get is one meal a day. Jews as they stayed in the ghetto life was constant fear of the Nazi’s. The Nazi process of building the ghettos was becoming a success they were killing a lot of Jews they didn’t want anybody to see what they were doing the Jews so they put them in a concentrated area.

public places such as, parks and civil service jobs. When World War two started, Jews were ordered to live within certain limited areas in cities called the ghettos, where they were forced in to small apartments, where they had to share the space with other families. Some ghettos had strict rules where Jews could only leave at certain times of the day but had to be back by the curfew, if they weren’t back by a certain time they would get killed and tortured by the Nazi soldiers. Each day the Nazis would order deportations which took about 1,000 Jews from the Ghettos each day on a train. The train then would take them away to concentration camps. To trick the Jews into going on the trains, the Nazi soldiers would tell them that they’re getting

Throughout the past few years, there has been tension in Los Angeles between the neighborhoods. In an originally African American enclave, a Latino gang intimidated original inhabitants to leave Compton, California in a violent trend seen in recent years. In January of 2013, the friend of a newly residential Compton family was both physically and verbally abused by 4 Latino men in efforts to scare away the black family that had just moved in. The men of the Latino gang “called him a ‘nigger’, saying black people were barred from the neighborhood’” and “jumped out, drew a gun on him and beat him with metal pipes” (LA Times). Thirty minutes after the 19-year-old family friend managed to escape into the house, a crowd of as many as 20

Robert J. Sampson is a criminologist, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and chair of the sociology department at Harvard University. He focus heavily on the intersectionality of race, poverty, age, and broken families in urban neighborhood throughout his career. Robert emphasis that these intersectionality’s are the causation of crime. Sampson is not a personality, biological, and opportunity theorist, but an ecologist theorist. He use his theories that are more in a macro level of the connection between neighborhoods and a person behavior in crime. He published many articles with many great criminologists, and wrote theories on urban neighborhoods.