A city constructed by racism: Los Angeles

Demarion Washington, 8, left, drinks juice in front of his home as Justin Scott, 8, leaps from a porch at the Jordan Downs Housing Projects in Watts, Calif. on June 5.
Source: Los Angeles Times, 2017

Residential segregation based on origin and “ethnicity” is a distinguishing feature that has long been established in U.S. cities. Residential segregation is the degree to which two or more groups live separately from each other in different parts of the urban space, it is a physical separation from these groups. This residential segregation can also take the form of sorting groups of populations in different neighborhoods and which shapes the living environment of the neighborhood.

This phenomenon considers not only “ethnic origin” but also income level. Residential segregation and racial segregation are closely linked. The causes of these racial and residential segregations have been the subject of much debate over several decades where three factors are highlighted to explain this phenomenon: the economy, preferences, and discrimination.

“Housing segregation is a fundamental mechanism of inequality in urban areas, and the transmission of inequality from one generation to the next goes first and foremost through the education system” and unfortunately, this residential segregation “ remains a characteristic of the U.S life “.

In the United States, the use of the word “race” is highly represented to mean the origin of a person, and, in federal statistics, the classification of “race”, the percentage of “race” in a…