Re:Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of...
by Alex3917 on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:27PM
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> how did forced busing lead to inner-city gangs?
White students (the vast majority) targeted the black students, who then formed gangs to protect themselves. There is a good multi-decade ethnography of the effects of various changes in public policy and society on one particular high school here: https://www.amazon.com/World-We-Created-Hamilton-High/dp/067...
The high school is anonymized, but iirc it's somewhere in Syracuse, NY.
Note that (at least afaik) that's not directly where our modern national-scale gangs come from, although White flight and the collapse of cities surely did contribute there also.
White students (the vast majority) targeted the black students, who then formed gangs to protect themselves. There is a good multi-decade ethnography of the effects of various changes in public policy and society on one particular high school here: https://www.amazon.com/World-We-Created-Hamilton-High/dp/067...
The high school is anonymized, but iirc it's somewhere in Syracuse, NY.
Note that (at least afaik) that's not directly where our modern national-scale gangs come from, although White flight and the collapse of cities surely did contribute there also.