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Comment On Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative Of Integration, Ronald Sundstrom
Comment On Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative Of Integration, Ronald Sundstrom
Philosophy
Elizabeth Anderson draws the attention of moral, social, and political philosophy to the idea of integration, an idea that is most often associated with the struggles to desegregate schools and neighborhoods in the years before and after the U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board. Her book, The Imperative of Integration, is a remarkable contribution because integration is not frequently mentioned outside of debates in the fields of urban affairs and education policy, and residential integration and segregation are rarely mentioned in academic philosophy. There are, however, some concerns with her defense of her defense of integration that …
Bleeding Albina: A History Of Community Disinvestment, 1940‐2000, Karen J. Gibson
Bleeding Albina: A History Of Community Disinvestment, 1940‐2000, Karen J. Gibson
Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations
Portland, Oregon, is celebrated in the planning literature as one of the nation’s most livable cities, yet there is very little scholarship on its small Black community. Using census data, oral histories, archival documents, and newspaper accounts, this study analyzes residential segregation and neighborhood disinvestment over a 60-year period. Without access to capital, housing conditions worsened to the point that abandonment became a major problem. By 1980, many of the conditions typically associated with large cities were present: high unemployment, poor schooling, and an underground economy that evolved into crack cocaine, gangs, and crime. Yet some neighborhood activists argued that …