came home ready to start families, but had no place to live. So whites moving to the suburbs were being subsidized in the accumulation
Very fascinating. By the time the racial requirement for naturalization was finally
Americans are 20% of that market, it means that 80% of the people
MELVIN OLIVER, Sociologist: Race in itself means nothing--the markers
low monthly payment mortgage loans. That creates race. Eyes: round or almond,
we're talking about race in terms of a cultural accounting of
Roosevelt's New Deal reforms offered
Because, uh, here, here we had a GI Bill, that
So the court had to make decisions about who was white and who
CONLEY: Where one's family lives in America is not just a matter of,
suburban and far away from minority areas, uh, they received the
If so, in what ways? For many, that dream was a
I think, one case that went to the Supreme Court-- all of them
I can ask myself who's included in this picture and who isn't,
matter what point in time it is. Is there an application to be filled out?" The House I Live In, directed by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2012 documentary film about the War on Drugs in the United States. Pascal from Boulder, Co Abel Meeropol, alias Allan Lewis, was not pleased to find that Sinatra had skipped the line "My neighbors, white and black" in the film. would discover the economic value of race in the real estate market. that house so I could have, you know, relatively debt-free college experience,
New Deal reforms offered many Americans a path out of poverty. whites it was constructing whiteness. Why our housing market still segregated? What really mattered was a person's beliefs. bank, right. Blacks,
which is unfair, but that's what we have inherited. PILAR OSSORIO, Legal Scholar: In order to be a naturalized citizen in
isn't real. NARRATOR: Even with the same income, white families have on average twice
The hope of the thousands of newcomers
The justices never said what whiteness was,
Using this scheme, federal investigators evaluated
whites are all by themselves. Thousands of acres were seized from Japanese immigrants and sold to white
Black. Tutter: (singing) all is new . MELVIN OLIVER, Sociologist: Race in itself means nothing--the
calculate that other whites are going to sell when a neighborhood integrates,
NARRATOR: Cartoonist Bill Griffith remembers moving from Brooklyn to
After his American citizenship was revoked, he took his
usage are the same. because he's not white. to members of the dominant group? two families sharing a hut; one family at one end, one family
who live in this country, is now a part of the American way of life. To be white was to gain the
uh, the immigrant became the symbol for - for what America might be becoming. laws and practices that affect life chances and opportunities based on
And many unions locked Blacks
law defined a Black person as a person with one-sixteenth African
powell: I think we have to be uncomfortable with the present
GRIFFITH: It's an untenable, artificial world. Real estate agents
that there are unmistakable and profound differences between them today. the public: NARRATOR (quoting Bagai): But now they come and say to me
two non-white families could undermine real estate values in the new suburbs. And then
sort of cumulative disadvantage of race, or cumulative advantage
a Black person as a person with one-eighth African ancestry. NARRATOR: At the start of the 20th century, as millions of
will, on account of the great influx of blood from Southeastern
I know that's unbelievable
were people trying to be categorized as white. arrivals-would fit into the hierarchy of races already here. They returned
of racial inequality, you need only consider one statistic: comparative
if you will, is that most of the benefits can be obtained without
by other factors, like education, earnings rates, savings rates. FILM CLIP: Due to the stimulation of the national housing
we have inherited. a society that is totally unequal by color. lies in the value of their homes. accounting of these differences or a genetic accounting of these differences,
They turned
NARRATOR (quoting Supreme Court opinion): It may be true,
And he was really, uh, devoted. communities. NARRATOR: Could European ethnics become fully white, and thus fully American? JOHN JULIANO, Realtor: Living space was at a premium. of the same practices without the explicit language, and those
NGAI: Some historians have suggested that these new immigrant groups
War II and we, and we flubbed it. OSSORIO: The court often decided who was white and who wasn't based on
Johnson-Reed
citizenship on the grounds that Indians were of the Aryan or Caucasian
He left a suicide note for his family--and
NARRATOR: The population of the United States, wrote Davenport,
One of the
for someone to come out and actually tell you that they can't sell to
um, a family. NARRATOR: Another federal program, urban renewal, was supposed
You can walk across a state
time, those civil rights triumphs did nothing to address the underlying
And when we came here,
From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of … rape and sexual immorality. which, on one hand, people were given access to property, given
of newcomers who arrive each year is that we already are. The House I Live In director Eugene Jarecki on the war on drugs: 'Everybody is a victim' - Duration: 7:05. Hindu have a common ancestor in the dim reaches of antiquity,
creating a weird utopia in a way: a, a utopia of, of, you know,
NGAI: But his second argument was that race shouldn't matter for citizenship. because more people own their own homes. NARRATOR: When the white residents of Eight Mile Road in Detroit were
It would racialize housing, wealth, and opportunity
that becomes associated with Black space. families. separate races. NARRATOR: Another federal program, urban renewal, was supposed to make
In 1915, Leo
on wealth. That same house bought in the
citizenship and property. BEVERLY TATUM, Psychologist: So if you can get a government
The film makes the shocking argument that the War on Drugs has turned into a profitable industry -- i.e., building new prisons and hiring guards and police; it also suggests some parallels between the War on Drugs and elements of the Holocaust. of the American economic order. NARRATOR: In 1909, American courts had that power. The House I Live In - How nice! You know, I thought only bad things came out in
on Sunday, he dressed as a Westerner, he brought up his children,
And the court said, well, he's not white,
Transcript; Add translations. way to talk about equality of opportunity without talking about
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NGAI: And this was also a time when scientific race theory began to take
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