Redlining

Part of Detroit’s history of racial discrimination is comprised on housing discrimination, which in turn contributed to job discrimination, interpersonal racism, and continued racial inequity…

Through a guided discussion and review of data, students learn that the practice of racial segregation concentrated African Americans in the lowest-graded, or redlined, neighborhoods.

This issue explains how residents in redlined neighborhoods could not afford to become homeowners and accumulate wealth at the rates other groups did.

Proposals that base their remedies primarily on formerly redlined areas do not redress the main racial group that was explicitly targeted.