Race &Ethnicity Unit blog # 9

I read “Fences and Neighbors: Segregation in 21st -Century America ” by John E. Farley and Gregory. Squires. And also the video " the difference between us ".The video explains the races by biological aspects such as genes and skin colors of each races.The article says that African Americans have long been and continued to be the most segregated group, they are notably more likely to live in integrated neighborhoods than they were a generation ago. However, for the past three decades, the average level of segregation between African Americans and whites has been decreasing since 1970. It also mentions that Native Americans who live in urban areas also are not very segregated from whites , but two thirds of the Native Americans who live in rural areas live on segregated reservations. Moreover, the factors of segregation are levels of income, education, and occupational status. But there is a questions that middle-class Asian Americans are more suburbanized and less segregated than middle-class African Americans. Even if the racial segregation has been decreasing, there is still the idea of segregation at African American compared to other race on many social aspects such as housing, neighborhood circumstance, work, and school. I read “ Race matters “ by Cornel West as well, he implies that the matter is not racial segregation but the roots of dividing people in class(like blacks, Asian, Hispanic.) in the first place. When we learned about social class and power in the class,we found out that people have a tendency to integrate with people who are same class or status. When I focus on the issue of housing, there is many places where most residents are African Americans in New York. When I heard” Bronx “, I imagine that many African American live there. I live in the place where many Asian people live also. My apartment, half of the residents are Asian people. I think people categorize ourselves and make a difference each other.