![]() ![]() But white people’s unconscious biases often run counter to their stated commitment to diversity one study found that while Black, Latinx, and white people all wanted to live in neighborhoods in which their group constituted about a third of the ethnic makeup, white people ended up choosing neighborhoods that were 74% white. Heather McGhee The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone Hardcover Februby Heather McGhee (Author) 7 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 16.19 27 Used from 10.42 32 New from 12. This situation persists today, even as more people come to see diversity and integration as positive phenomena. These came in the form of public policies that enforced segregation, like government loans that required developers to put racial covenants in housing contracts, and like single-family zoning in neighborhoods, which restricted developers to building housing beyond the means of many Black households rather than more affordable multi-unit developments.Ĭonsequently, many white people had very little contact with people of color, though the reverse was rarely true. But as the resulting solidarity between Black and white working-class communities came to pose a threat to white elites, these elites sought ways to sow division. Segregation was supposed to end after the Civil War, as communities became more integrated during the Reconstruction era. ![]()
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