Economic and Racial Segregation in Northton

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Economic and Racial Segregation in Northton

Racial segregation has been a frequent threat to the development and built of social cohesion in the nation. The issue has devastating impacts not only on the victims but also the country’s economy as the segregation are not productive enough as it should be. Therefore, to a profound extent, racial separation is related to the economic status of the residents and community involved. It brings about the economic segregation matter that significantly shows the financial situation and living standards of different ethnical groups in the country. In many instances, issues of economic segregation move the hand to hand as the segregated noble group is most probably expect to be facing poverty which significantly to low social status. The Northon village is on the historical based place that has been substantially known to have undergone both racial and economic segregation transition. In this discussion, economic and social segregation are elaborated into an in-depth extent with regards to the Northton village population.

Initially, Northton village was inhabited by the black where different races significantly occupied the place resulting in a mixed up community involving several tribes. Today according to the Racial Dot Map, the village demographic shows that it has been inhabited by mixed races which vary from the whites to the people of color. The old-time Quakers were the first to come in the village followed by the Irish and Germans who were at this time working class, then the Africa-Americans, the progressive Quakers, the young at heart counter-culturists of the mid-50s and lastly the young urban professionals of the 1980s. Regarding the patterns of segregation in the village, the black occupy the large percentage of the residents which goes to around sixty percent while the other white race invades to about forty percent of the total population (Cable, 2013). The spatial level at which the racial segregation is observed is a neighborhood. The people of color and the white people tend to live at different estates of the village.

Comparing the racial segregation between the Northton village and that outside the boundaries, it is ironical to realize that it one of the places where the blacks dominated while on the other regions surrounding the area are primarily inhabited by the whites. The social devolution, as well as liberation in in the nation after its colonialization, leads to the mixing up of the different tribes which at the results to racial segregation where the minority found themselves as the victims. Many regions are dominated by the whites where the Northton village is an exception as the blacks have the enormous population because the first inhabitant community has to take the larger population percentage significantly. In consideration of the nation’s historical context, the black at any instances were the immigrants during the slavery period era. The Africa-American at those times even after the end of slavery used to work for the whites leading to their segregation in the social basis being considered as a lower social status race (Oliver & Shapiro 2013).

In consideration of the Pew’s interactive tool, the black people at the Northton village take the bottommost economic status while the whites in the society dominated the economic field. The economic segregation patterns are observed at the neighborhood spatial level where the Whites are involved in commerce and secure jobs while the blacks, on the other hand, undergo discrimination in the community in such a way that it was difficult to get employment or get involved in the business. The case is not different with the cities outside its boundaries as to a profound extent the white is put in a higher economic class than the people of color. The reason behind this reality is that initially the blacks economically depended on the whites where they could be employed to provide labor for their farms. Therefore, the African-Americans did not have the economic potentiality as they did not have the skills to venture into business or get vacant at the top jobs.

In the comparison of the economic and racial segregation patterns determined, it is clear that both go hand in hand. The racial segregation has significantly nested economic discrimination. For instance, the probability of a white being recruited is double that of the black person securing the same employment. The blacks in Northton villages as well as at the outside regions are prone to poverty and low living standard degrading their social status in the community (Pearcy, 2015). The reason behind this tends to be racial segregation in the city in accessing the social amenities such as schools thus having no business skills to venture into commerce. At the workplace, the same black people are discriminated, and they do not have the civil rights in the society making them economically deprived.

From the above discussion, racial and economic segregation goes hand to hand as the same ethnical groups that are subjected to discrimination regarding their ethnicity are the same people living under the poor condition and they are significantly referred to belong to low social status in the society. The mixing of people from different nations has played a significant role in curbing the menace of discrimination in both racial and economic basis. Segregation at all means tends to marginalize the victimized ethical group hence it is the individual’s responsibility as well as the government’s role to ensure its eradication as the way forward toward social-economic development.

Reference

Cable, D. (2013). The racial dot map. Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia.

Oliver, M., & Shapiro, T. (2013). Black wealth/white wealth: A new perspective on racial inequality. Routledge.

Pearcy, M. (2015). ” Redlining”: Teaching About Racial Residential Segregation. Virginia Social Science Journal, 50.