Social and Racial Inequality

Created by Dustin Cable at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the Racial Dot Map provides ”an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country” (USA 2013).

U.S. Census Bureau estimates for 2018 show that racial minority populations—especially Hispanic, Asian and black Americans—continue to expand (USA: Brookings 2019).

The U.S. website features a series of radio podcasts that discuss various types of discrimination (USA: Freakonomics 2021).

Based on civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education, ProPublica has built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline (USA 2019).

The Equal Justice Initiative researchers have documented 4075 racial terror lynchings of African Americans between 1877 and 1950 (USA 2018)

In dieser Unterrichtseinheit erörtern Schülerinnen und Schüler Fälle von mutmaßlicher Polizei­gewalt gegen schwarze Menschen und setzen sich kritisch mit Racial Profiling auseinander (ZEIT 2022).

Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s (Britannica 2017).

W.E.B. Du Bois’ prose poem “Credo” proclaimed his philosophy of racial equality. Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor (USA 2015-21).

Each of 4 maps illustrates a different phenomenon that shaped Saint Louis: white flight; laws and policies that deliberately created racial segregation; municipal zoning laws; and laws and policies that fit under the umbrella of ʺurban renewal.ʺ (USA 2017-21)