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The emergence and ways of solving the problem of black ghettos in the US cities
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33 Экономика. Народное хозяйство. Экономические науки
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32 Политика
Date of publication
28.06.2024
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2024
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10.18254/S207054760031492-8
The emergence and ways of solving the problem of black ghettos in the US cities
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The article is devoted to the study of a complex of housing and socio-economic problems that American low-income urban neighborhoods with a predominantly black population, traditionally called ghettos, have faced for more than a hundred years. The paper examines the reasons for the emergence of black neighborhoods in large American cities outside the South at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as factors that negatively affected the quality of housing conditions in them. The author pays special attention to the attempts of the American authorities to counteract the continued degradation of black ghettos after the Second World War, which in fact had contradictory results. The work examines in detail the process of further decline of black neighborhoods during the 1960-1990s, which affected all spheres of life of their inhabitants. Finally, the article analyzes a number of effective measures that city authorities have taken in recent decades to develop poor neighborhoods, including those with a large percentage of black residents.

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Dmitry N. Vorobyev
Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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