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3 Urban Renewal and the Production of Inequalities
3 Urban Renewal and the Production of Inequalities
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The net result, Fullilove said, is that more people could vote in the United States, but their communities were destroyed. 1 This chapter is the rapporteur's synopsis of the presentation by Mindy Fullilove, a professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and the statements therein have not been endorsed or verified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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For example, the Teenie Harris archival collection, in the words of poet, music, and cultural critic Stanley Crouch, "provides us with an epic sense of life, which is to say FIGURE 3-1 Art class at the Irene Kaufman Settlement House in the Pittsburgh Hill District, 1950. SOURCE: Esther Bubley, Pennsylvania Room, Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh.
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This is important, "because in the rhetoric of urban renewal, this neighborhood was called a blighted slum that was a cancer on the city, and the only way to save the city was to destroy it, to literally wipe it off the face of the earth." To have this photographic evidence of this epic sense of life, of a sort of reciprocity, mutuality, people engaged with each other, and creating community, helps to create a sense of how wrong the policy was. 3 See http://teenie.cmoa.org (accessed May 16, 2016)
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SOURCE: Charles "Teenie" Harris, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Heinz Family Fund. R03062, 3-3, crop black in pages URBAN RENEWAL The American Housing Act of 1949, Title V of Public Law 81-171, authorized urban renewal which was implemented over a 14-year period and carried out in 2,500 housing projects in 1,000 cities.
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After the arena was built (see Figure 3-7) , not only was an entire section of the Hill District wiped out, but highways and parking lots were erected between the remaining African American community and downtown Pittsburgh.
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experienced what Fullilove called root shock, which is a traumatic stress reaction to losing all or part of one's emotional ecosystem (Fullilove, 2009)
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They have to make new lives and manage huge emotional costs, economic costs, social costs, and political costs. SOCIAL DISINTEGRATION Simms reported that the people she interviewed talked about their social networks losing some of their density from 1960 to 1980, the period after urban renewal (Simms, 2008)
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Pittsburgh rebuilt its economy on education and medicine, but African Americans were not able to access the education necessary to get into those fields, and they have basically been left behind, not only in the economy of Pittsburgh but in economies all across the United States.
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Neighborhoods like Middle Hill illustrate the long-term ravages of bank redlining. These are neighborhoods that if not legally redlined were at least paradigmatically redlined.
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Fragmentation The result of disinvestment was the destruction of social bonds and the loosening of strong family ties, Fullilove said. Not only did families and churches fragment, but also the weak ties that carried across groups were disappearing.
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When people get the big picture and shift their perspective to see the city in mind, they can see where the social disintegration has torn communities apart, where white privilege thinking has given people bad ideas, and where petty-mindedness is a dead end. 4 See http://www.p2wny.org/uploads/2/5/4/2/25429918/periodic_table_of_elements_ of_urban_restoration.pdf (accessed July 13, 2016)
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