Talk:Residential segregation in the United States

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Hannansylla (article contribs). This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2021 and 3 December 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): EJPit (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Tamaz.young.

U.S.-centric point of view

I added a tag to the article because presumably residential segregation exists in places other than the United States. Mlm42 (talk) 21:11, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Residential segregation definitely exists in other countries, particularly Latin American countries. i am potentially going to edit this page as part of a class at Rice University. If so, I will focus on the non-US aspects. K_Gagalis (talk) 24 Feb 2012 —Preceding undated comment added 07:47, 24 February 2012 (UTC).

Residential segregation is a topic that I am very interested in and I am studying as a part of my university sociology course. The existence of residential segregation is very clear in certain areas, more prominent in areas of urban towns with rural villages surrounding it. The government have started to address this issue with new social housing policies. The problem with residential segregation is that it so often leads to a circle of poverty, with people in underprivileged areas attending poorer quality schools, therefore not getting such good exam results so not getting the best employment opportunities and so on. Even if people do break the cycle and get a better education and create more opportunities for themselves, they often then leave the area, reinforcing the inequalities. The problem is clear, but the solutions are a lot more difficult. Just providing social housing in more affluent areas isn't the answers, as those upper classes will then move out, and the area that the poorer people move from will risk degeneration. In response to this article, I feel that it misses some key issues, and should explain the faults with current government solutions. Beckie2707 (talk) 17:22, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

My take on Residential Segregation

Residential segregation is a topic that I am very interested in and I am studying as a part of my university sociology course. The existence of residential segregation is very clear in certain area's, more prominent in areas of urban towns with rural villages surrounding it. The government have started to address this issue with new social housing policies. The problem with residential segregation is that it so often leads to a circle of poverty, with people in underprivileged areas attending poorer quality schools, therefore not getting such good exam results so not getting the best employment opportunities and so on. Even if people do break the cycle and get a better education and create more opportunities for themselves, they often then leave the area, reinforcing the inequalities. The problem is clear, but the solutions are a lot more difficult. Just providing social housing in more affluent areas isn't the answers, as those upper classes will then move out, and the area that the poorer people move from will risk degeneration. In response to this article, I feel that it misses some key issues, and should explain the faults with current government solutions. Beckie2707 (talk) 17:23, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Rename proposal

This article has been tagged for globalisation since December 2011. It still appears to deal primarily and almost exclusively with the United States of America, and barely touches on the subject in the rest of the world. At times, it is not even clear which particular region or country the article is referring to - instead leaving it to inference or guesswork.

As the article concerns itself mostly with the USA, and has not been change significantly since being tagged, I think it should be renamed as per the proposal. --98.122.20.56 (talk) 23:29, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Causes expansion I think it might be worth exploring a bit more into the roots of residential segregation in terms of the institutional racism, and finding links within to explain how and why residential segregation occurs. Hannansylla (talk) 20:11, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Outline of Proposed Edits

I am considering adding to this page for a Wiki Education project.

I see two sections that could be expanded significantly: gentrification and consequences. Both of these sections currently offer only surface level descriptions. There is a large body of literature on gentrification and its numerous impacts, and as gentrification has accelerated as a mechanism of residential segregation, I plan to add more information on this topic.

I plan to divide the consequences section into three subsections: economic, health, and education. There is a large body of literature on the health and education impacts of residential segregation to draw from, and I think this will provide a better picture of the consequences of residential segregation. The economic consequences subsection would draw on the research of Raj Chetty, among others, who have studied the impact of residential segregation on employment outcomes.

Lastly, the case study of Atlanta at the end of the article seems out of place. I think that the effects explained in this case study could be abstracted in the consequences section and the case study deleted. Jkolli (talk) 03:22, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Proposed edits as project for class

I am planning to edit this page as a project for my course at Rice University. I have outlined some of my potential edits, additions, and sources on my user page sandbox. I plan to expand the history section with more details; expand the Influences on Segregation section to include discrimination in housing appraisals, neighborhood disinvestment, and more details about gentrification; and expand the Consequences section to include subsections on education, healthcare, food deserts, urban heat islands, and employment. I also plan to add information about residential segregation in Detroit and Chicago in the final section. --EJPit (talk) 14:39, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

This article is extremely well written and flows very logically. You a great job of including various racial groups, which seems to have been previously lacking. The article could use more specific research— rather than citing broader claims, it could benefit from direct use of information such as quotes, images, and statistics. Really great job all around! IJXB27 (talk) 23:57, 3 November 2021 (UTC) IJXB27

Peer Review

You have made great contributions to improve this article’s status by a large measure. Specifically, your rewriting of the History section introduced the article very well. The changes made to the titles of headings and subheadings provide more detail regarding the topics of said sections. I think an illustration of a statistical graph to show trends would be very beneficial because it would make the information more visible and tangible to the reader and visualize the importance of why residential segregation trends are changing. The most important improvements you could make with more time would be furthering the development of the sections you created. Tamaz.young (talk) 12:33, 4 November 2021 (UTC)