In what ways did federal, state, and local policies intersect with American social and cultural norms to further entrench patterns of racial segregation during the mid-century period (1930s – 1960s)?
Address the following in two well-crafted pages. Be sure to ground your arguments in specifics from the provided sources. Use in-text, parenthetical citations (author’s last name, pg. #). If the source is unpaginated (as in the case of the Pruitt-Igoe Myth), just use the author’s (or director’s) last name in parentheses.
I also need a discussion question thats part of this assigment.
Read David Oshinsky, “A Powerful, Disturbing History of Residential Segregation in America,” New York Times, June 20, 2017 and “Author Interviews: ‘The Color of Law’ Details How U.S. Housing Policies Created Segregation,” NPR, May 17, 2017.
“A Powerful, Disturbing History of Residential Segregation in America” can be found at the following site: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/books/review/richard-rothstein-color-of-law-forgotten-history.html“Author Interviews: ‘The Color of Law’ Details How U.S. Housing Policies Created Segregation” can be found at the following site: https://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528822128/the-color-of-law-details-how-u-s-housing-policies-created-segregation
I’ve also created a Word doc for the NYT article (in case you don’t have a subscription or immediate access).
Documentary: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
It can be rented from Amazon (for about 3.99) without commercials, or, viewed for free from Pluto (though it has commercials and the platform requires a little bare information). Below is the Pluto link: https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/the-pruitt-igoe-myth-1-1
The director is: Chad Freidrichs (If you have Amazon Prime, it too might be “free” to access.)