In America, the typical black household had just $5,677 in wealth (assets minus debts)
in 2009, the typical Hispanic household had $6,325 in wealth and the typical white household had $113,149. These lopsided wealth ratios are the largest since the government began publishing such data a quarter century ago. Data from the US Census:
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
posted by cashman
on Jul 27, 2011 -
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Jo Guldi writes
a fascinating entry about social engineering and geography in the 1970's. "The geographers located answers in American zones of isolation and hopelessness. Bill Bunge organized his fellow professors into the Detroit Geographical Expedition, leading frequent trips to document the slums of Detroit and later Toronto. Their findings were equally provocative. In 1968, the Society published a map entitled “
Where Commuters Run Over Black Children on the Pointes-Downtown Track.” Life and death, they argued, were not merely the commodities available to any hard-working American, but hung upon the thread of a special kind of privilege, the privilege of safe territory."
Guldi is a historian at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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posted by cashman
on Feb 12, 2010 -
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