This week, we discussed post WWII politics and the housing authority. Thinking about where you grew up and the landscape and population you lived with, how did this time period effect your family? Have you seen a change in your neighborhood? What are your thoughts and feelings about this week’s lesson?
Format
- Two pages
- Reflect on the videos and readings- how does this week’s lesson relate to you?
Redlining
What do you know about Redlining? Some people know a lot but some don’t. We were supposed to not know!
Redlining is the unjust practice, of color coding neighborhoods and counties on racial lines. Please watch the following 15 minute video: Redlined: A Legacy of Housing Discrimination (Links to an external site.).
What about gentrification?
So, if suburbs were created for “white” people, why are they moving back to the cities now? Please let Laurence Fishburne explain it to us…
But how does it look in your neighborhood?
Some of you might have personal experiences of gentrification in your own neighborhoods. Sometimes the change is fast and sometimes it is slow.
To explain gentrification a little more, please meet my boyfriend- Mr. Shannon Brown, his students call him- Mr. Brown, (I call him honey). He is 50, and grew up in Berkeley, Ca. When he was coming up, a lot of the business around him were black owned. Today, his neighborhood has changed.
This documentary is being created by a Librarian at his school. It is 8 mins.
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