{"id":12041,"date":"2014-12-31T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/annaschroen\/?p=67"},"modified":"2014-12-31T17:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:05:59","slug":"the-new-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/the-new-segregation\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_68\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/the-most-and-least-diverse-cities-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"wp-image-68 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/annaschroen\/files\/2014\/12\/diversity-737x1024.png\" alt=\"diversity\" width=\"584\" height=\"811\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/the-most-and-least-diverse-cities-in-america\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I pulled up the image above while I was speaking to a friend of mine. We had been discussing the institutional and economic causes of the lack of affordable housing in the city he lives in, Oakland, California, and I wanted to see how my city and his stacked up against each other. As you can see, Oakland tops the chart and Detroit is bringing up the rear.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of things I love about Detroit, but it&#8217;s becoming clear that the problems in historically non-white places like Brooklyn and Oakland are becoming that of Detroit. Detroiters, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Detroit#Race_and_ethnicity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who are predominantly (82.7%) Black<\/a>, are completely underrepresented in the safest and most economically successful areas of the city, Midtown and Downtown. I wish I could say it was shocking, but there is no question where 8 Mile and the Grosse Points are on this map.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69\" style=\"width: 1260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demographics.coopercenter.org\/DotMap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69\" class=\"wp-image-69 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/annaschroen\/files\/2014\/12\/Detroit.png\" alt=\"Source: http:\/\/demographics.coopercenter.org\/DotMap\/index.html\" width=\"1250\" height=\"689\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: http:\/\/demographics.coopercenter.org\/DotMap\/index.html<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/how-do-you-experience-segregation?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=sprout&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times and ProPublica <\/a>\u00a0want you to share\u00a0your experience with segregation, no matter what city you live in, with the hashtag #SegregationIs. For me, #SegregationIs working in downtown Detroit and interacting with 90% White people no matter where I go.<\/p>\n<p>What is yours?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled up the image above while I was speaking to a friend of mine. We had been discussing the institutional and economic causes of the lack of affordable housing in the city he lives in, Oakland, California, and I wanted to see how my city and his stacked up against each other. As you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[343,62,63,410,411],"class_list":["post-12041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anna-schroen","tag-challenge-detroit","tag-detroit","tag-ethnicity","tag-segregation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}