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A Steady Habit of Segregation: The Origins and Continuing Harm of Separate and Unequal Housing and Public Schools in Metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut

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Title: A Steady Habit of Segregation: The Origins and Continuing Harm of Separate and Unequal Housing and Public Schools in Metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut
Language: English
Authors: Eaton, Susan, Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF)
Source: Poverty & Race Research Action Council. 2020.
Availability: Poverty & Race Research Action Council. 1200 18th Street NW Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-906-8023; Fax: 202-842-2885; e-mail: info@prrac.org; Web site: http://www.prrac.org
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 70
Publication Date: 2020
Document Type: Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Ethnic Groups, Housing, School Segregation, Racial Discrimination, Public Policy, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, United States History, Public Schools, Government Role, Equal Education, Social Justice, Access to Health Care, Economic Development, Zoning, Testing, Public Housing, School Desegregation, State Government, Court Litigation, Income Contingent Loans, State Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Government, Local Government, Curriculum Development, Socioeconomic Influences, Urban Renewal, Migration, Political Issues, Civil Rights, Suburbs, Metropolitan Areas
Geographic Terms: Connecticut (Hartford)
Abstract: The enduring condition of racial and ethnic segregation in schools and housing in metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut, is rooted in historical and contemporary racial discrimination and in practices and policies that exacted disparate harm on Black and Latinx people. School segregation both reflects and reinforces segregation in housing that was created, sustained, and exacerbated over decades. By all available measures, both the state of Connecticut and the Hartford metropolitan area have extremely high levels of racial and ethnic segregation in housing and public schools relative to other metropolitan areas in the United States. The purpose of this report is to increase awareness both of the role of government and other actors in creating and cementing segregation and of the consequences of the condition of racial and ethnic separation. The hope is that this knowledge will inspire redress in the form of holistic policy making in multiple sectors, including housing, education, health, and economic development. This report can also inform grant making that acknowledges and seeks to address root causes of racial inequality, an inequality long a hallmark of the state of Connecticut. The report offers recommendations to inform these conversations, from which more and better ideas will surely emerge. [The report was published with the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University and the Open Communities Alliance (OCA).]
Abstractor: ERIC
Entry Date: 2021
Accession Number: ED611539
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:The enduring condition of racial and ethnic segregation in schools and housing in metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut, is rooted in historical and contemporary racial discrimination and in practices and policies that exacted disparate harm on Black and Latinx people. School segregation both reflects and reinforces segregation in housing that was created, sustained, and exacerbated over decades. By all available measures, both the state of Connecticut and the Hartford metropolitan area have extremely high levels of racial and ethnic segregation in housing and public schools relative to other metropolitan areas in the United States. The purpose of this report is to increase awareness both of the role of government and other actors in creating and cementing segregation and of the consequences of the condition of racial and ethnic separation. The hope is that this knowledge will inspire redress in the form of holistic policy making in multiple sectors, including housing, education, health, and economic development. This report can also inform grant making that acknowledges and seeks to address root causes of racial inequality, an inequality long a hallmark of the state of Connecticut. The report offers recommendations to inform these conversations, from which more and better ideas will surely emerge. [The report was published with the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University and the Open Communities Alliance (OCA).]