sprawl silentbob Can we talk about the relationship between white_flight and housing_discrimination? Can we talk about gentrification vs integration? Can we talk about segregation? Can we talk about Cabrini_green and the Ida B Wells housing projects? Can we talk about the war_on_poverty vs Reaganomics? Can we talk about Katrina and the FEMA trailers? Can we talk about turf wars? And crooked alderman? What's it like where you live? 101011 ... silentbob Environmental racism stems from the Civil Rights Movement and was coined by African American civil rights activist Benjamin Chavis. Environmental racism can be either intentional or unintentional racial discrimination and can explain specific incidents in which predominantly minority communities are targeted for the siting of polluting industries and factories[2]. The terms also describes the effects of purported structural and institutionalized racism that segregate minority communities into regions where they are exposed to health hazards because of the cheaper land in polluted, industrial areas[3]. Environmental racism theoretically also accounts for the exclusion of minority groups from decision-making or regulatory bodies in their communities. 101011 ... silentbob The most obvious case of residential sorting is when a dominant/majority group (generally whites) imposing segregation on a subordinate/minority group (in case of the U.S., the paradigmatic example would be policies aimed towards African-Americans).[1] It is still the case that “blacks traditionally experience severe prejudice and discrimination in urban housing markets” and they “tend to live in systematically disadvantaged neighborhoods.” [4] Moreover, this ongoing segregation has long-term effects on African-American families and their ability to buy and sell homes, due to the red-lining of those districts described below.[5]. More broadly, there is support[3] for the suggestion that residential sorting diminishes trust between different ethnic groups in a society, as the sorting ensures that members of the different groups will interact less over time, which makes members of those groups less likely to be sympathetic towards members of other groups. This makes it easier for members of all groups to stereotype other groups, and thus allows for the creation of a stronger distinction between the us and a them. Uslaner[3] argues that this type of sorting has been occurring in the United States for quite some time, although he points out that the sorting is happening more by political preference and socio-economic status than by ethnic background, and his suggestion is that this may well, over time, destabilize democratic life. 101011 what's it to you? who go blather from