Economic Racism: A look at Rental Prices in 1930
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2012-04-17
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The Great Migration caused massive demographic changes in Northeastern and Midwestern cities as African Americans moved from the South to the North. These changes led to economic discrimination and segregation within northern cities. This paper compares African American and white rental prices in four major cities: Chicago, Detroit, New York City, and Philadelphia in an effort to see how this discrimination and segregation affected rental prices. The results consistently show that in the most precise geographic area, prices rise as the concentration of blacks in those neighborhoods rise, which I believe is a result of overcrowding.
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Fakhoury, Basel (2012). Economic Racism: A look at Rental Prices in 1930. Honors thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/5149.
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