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In the end, large scale immigration is nothing new for New York City and there has been a tradition of ethnic diversity. Far from being the center of conflict and drama, many West Indian people tend to be ignored- swelled and partly sheltered by the large native population among whom they live. Jamaicans feel as if being Jamaican in New York is very different than being American black. Jamaicans claim to see themselves as superior, more ambitious, harder workers and greater achievers than American

economically secure especially not to live in a suburban area like Queens. Only whites fit into

The cultural demographic in Queens County is heavily dominated by a melting pot of Asian cultures including Chinese, Korean and Indian. Historically, the Fresh Meadows was thriving Jewish community. In 2010, there was 44.3% White who may have celebrated the Jewish culture and 45.2% Asians. Now, it has been surveyed that 47.7% of the total population in Fresh Meadows is Asian (US Census Bureau, 2014). But, nonetheless, in this diverse community, it is not difficult to find someone who have the cultural background.

Race affects the geographical location where people live. Several authors have examined the relationship between race and residential location within cities, and have come to the conclusion that race clearly determines where one resides. The thesis developed in this paper is that people of colour or Blacks usually occupy those areas in the city that are considered high risk, either in terms of how close they are to environmental hazards or in terms of how they are located in low lying areas. The concepts that will be dealt with in this paper are those of environmental racism, racial residential segregation and environmental justice. Social construction is seen as relegating people of colour to certain neighbourhoods, and while it may be accepted as the way things are, a closer assessment of the situation through research studies show that there is nothing casual about the observations, but that there is a system of racism that underlies the decisions that are made, and that accounts for the residential location of Blacks in certain parts of the city. This paper examines this idea by looking at many cities throughout the United States, which point to the same trend, to the location of lack in places of environmental hazard, whether topographical or industrial.

As has been described, research at on the Levi Jordan Plantation has focused on the African American resident community, and has revealed considerable information about the specialized crafts that were practiced by members of this community. Evidence indicates that the use of these crafts went beyond daily subsistence needs to include ritual use, and demonstrates multi-dimensional patterns of artifact use in their community: functional, social, and religious aspects are evident. It has been proposed that one of these crafts was the manufacture of munitions. As first argued by Brown and Cooper 1990 (4), one of the cabins excavated appeared to contain a high quantity of lead and other related artifacts that indicated the

The authors, researcher at the Columbia and Rutgers University, explores the gentrification of Harlem as it has started taking effects on the indigenous residents. The causes of gentrification ranging from changing of lifestyles, participation of women in white collar sectors to rent gap conditions of housing stock,where potential value is perceived to be greater, explain how Harlem is gradually losing to the power of almighty dollars. The authors indicate that decline in housing quality due to tenant abuse, domestic violence and tax delinquency left Harlem in situation where intervention of outsiders was necessary. However, the outside influence and private investments gradually taking a significant tolls on the long term Harlem residents,

The problems of race and urban poverty remain pressing challenges which the United States has yet to address. Changes in the global economy, technology, and race relations during the last 30 years have necessitated new and innovative analyses and policy responses. A common thread which weaves throughout many of the studies reviewed here is the dynamics of migration. In When Work Disappears, immigrants provide comparative data with which to highlight the problems of ghetto poverty affecting blacks. In No Shame in My Game, Puerto Rican and Dominican immigrants are part of the changing demographics in Harlem. In Canarsie, the possible migration of blacks into a working/middle-class neighborhood prompts conservative backlash from a

Black Corona and the article White Spatial Imagination both touch upon how real estates agents favored lending and financing white families because black communities were a ‘poor lending risk’. Another tactic that the white community often use was violence, because they viewed the idea of black homeowners as a target on their own financial stability, as it would lead to property value decrease, they employed violent tactics in order to ensure the physical separation of the black bodies and to showcase Black people inferiority. Although they were no longer slaves they were treated terribly to the point where they were constantly being segregated because of the melanin of their skin.when the whites moved the factories out of the cities and whites

According to Maurer and Smith (2009), a community's defining features include its attributes, people, places, interactions, and common characteristics, interests, and goals. Every community assessment involves a process of collecting and analyzing data and then interpreting the data to form valid conclusions. This analysis can include demographic and epidemiological data as well as other types of data. This paper contains a community assessment of Jamaica Queens, one of forty-two different neighborhoods in New York City. Jamaica Queens is a diverse community within the county of Queens, and was the neighborhood of the authors employment and near the author's residence/

This research proposal is a guideline to explore and analyze people’s perception of the term “ghetto.” The meaning of the term “ghetto” has been ramified over the years and this proposal is aimed to provide insight of the implications meant today. The Ghetto has been defined as “a part of a city, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardship.” (Dictionary.com). Similar to the dictionary definition the term “ghetto”, America seems to treat the term “ghetto” as a neighborhoods that is largely populated with African Americans and poor people. This project is focused on discovering the socioeconomic

Have you ever gone to Chinatown supposing to find a culture full of African Americans? Probably not, because that is not where they’re expected to be. We live in a world where colonies of different colored people are expected, or otherwise discriminated into populating distinct spaces; African Americans are supposed to be in the ghetto, Chinese belong in Chinatown, and Caucasians reserve more elite communities. For centuries, each race has been striving to belong in a society where people are accepted as equals and certain jobs are not handed out to favored ethnicities. This form of discrimination has somewhat dwindled down, however, it still has an undeniable impact on the lives of every single generation since mankind was created. In

Longtime white residents are also struggling to identify with the place. I have been running with a white friend, Lauryl, for more than a decade in a running club. She teaches high school English. She has had enough of recent changes in Washington, too, though she herself is a transplant from Los Angeles. She’s moving to New Orleans. “When I walk outside my house, these people don’t speak,” she says of the

The Cherry Hill community is what some would considered a middle class community in Chester, South Carolina. This community has a number of different races which makes it a very versatile community. It is made up of 95% Caucasian, 2% African American, 2% Hispanic, 0.5% Asian, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and 0.3% American Indian or Alaskan Native. There is also a number of people who live within the community that are considered to be two or more races. Unfortunately, for this community 17.96% of the people who live there are over the age of 65 and looking to live their retirement life in a nice peaceful environment. Another 61.29% of the community is made up of people who are still at the working age of 18- 64. Then there are another 20.75% of the population that is under the age of 18. The smallest amount of the population are the children that are under the age of 5 years old and they only make up 5.31% of the population. During the past few years the median household income was estimated at $42,000 and in comparison, is $8,000 less than the state of South Carolina median income which is $50,000. The reason we know that it’s $8,000 less than the state median is because of a recent Census American Survey that was done in the area. In 2010 57.16% of the household that had been studied in the area had an annual income of less than the states $50,000, compared to the rest of the 50.24% of the state. On the other hand, the average home in the community is

As someone who came from Japan, an extremely homogeneous nation whose foreign population accounts for only 2.3 million as of June 2016, according to the data collected by the Ministry of Justice The current Japanese population, for the record is 126 million which means that every 100 people you encounter, you are lucky to see 1 who is not Japanese. Strikingly different from the United States, internationally regarded as a country of immigrants, where people of all races, colour, gender and religion is said to live in harmony. I however was surprised by the amount of hatred and racism I see. From the basis of real-life observation, the US is intensively diverse. It was blind of me to think that the fight for an egalitarian society ended at the end the civil rights movement. I was blindsided by my high school teacher who sang praises of America, ignoring the core problems it experienced and is still experiencing. Out of all the things we learned in class, the theme that I decided to write my final paper on is segregation of American communities, and narrowed it down to the possible reasons why affluent Black people, tend to live in poorer neighbourhoods when they can easily afford a better one. I read an article before about this, but not exactly the reasons why in addition, this trend was also observed in our previous readings. Specifically, in Leslie M. Harris’s “In the shadow of Slavery: African American in New York City 1626-1863” and in Sean Wilentz’s

I can only describe my childhood as eventful and ever-changing. Though I was, for the most part stationary in where I lived, I feel as if that too has been as forward moving as my life. I’ve gone to several different schools and been put into so many different environments, being more unique and more diverse than the last. At the same time, I watched as the area that I called my neighborhood change in accordance with my new experiences. It has gone from being this sleepy mix of an urban and suburban area to being a well-populated, busy center of commerce. The borough of Queens is where my siblings and I have called home for the last twenty-one years. We grew up in Corona, one of the many different neighborhoods in the borough, and have never really lived anywhere else. The same could be said of our cousins that live in Brooklyn, as they have lived in the Flatbush neighborhood their whole lives, and in the Bronx. However, all of our parents were not born in the area we were raised in. Instead, they all had immigrated to New York City from Africa years before any of us were born. They all, at one point or another, have talked about how the city is fairly different from their home country and how several practices that might’ve been common to them aren’t so common here. While we, as children, were shaped and influenced by our current environment and more or less became part of the neighborhood instantly, our parents had to adjust to