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- talk about gentrification specifically in Dallas (add a subpage) - talk about housing and the differences in education and housing

Assignment 8: Women who graduate from Ivy League colleges make much less than their male peers even though they may graduate with higher honors for several reasons including: entering competitive, moneymaking occupations where the wage gap is large, entering jobs with little flexibility for family matters, and their tendency to follow female social norms and downshift.

Assignment 10: Gentrification brings together culture and liberal humanism with capitalism and production and supply (Hamnett 174). Gentrification involves the replacement of lower-income working class groups with middle class and higher-income people (Hamnett 175). Gentrification occurs in populated cities all over the world, especially in the United States. Dallas has undergone gentrification for many years now. In around 1869, African- Americans, freedmen, started to own land and build communities of their own as they battled against segregation and racial discrimination (Kemper 179). Then railroad tracks such as the Houston and Texas Central railroads and the Texas and Pacific Railroad divided the city and introduced new job opportunities (Kemper 180). With this came the influx of many African Americans into North Dallas, and they built schools, opened businesses, and created a space similar to those of white neighborhoods Kemper 180). After World War I, the influx of African-Americans and their businesses, steadily increased (Kempter 183). Unfortunately, segregation and racism led to the overcrowding and deteriorating conditions of African-American homes in North Dallas: Whites were not allowed to sell real estate to African-Americans and severe violence transpired throughout the city (Kemper 186). Then, Roseland Homes, new buildings made specifically to house minorities, and the creation the expressway brought more African Americans to North Dallas (Kemper 192). However, from the 1960s to the 1980s, even though laws were enacted to help desegregation in housing and the public-school system, such as The Fair Housing Act of 1968, the transformation did occur overnight (Kemper 196). In the late 1970s and early 1980s, “governmentally facilitated gentrification of North Dallas had displaced many of the African-American residents who once had been the majority in the area” (Kemper 197). In the 2000s, Dallas was transformed to house the influx of young, mostly White professionals, and the term “North Dallas” is more associated with “affluent Whites” instead of African-Americans (Kemper 221). As described in a recent study by Elvin K. Wyly and Daniel J. Hammel, gentrification now and days serves as a “new type of segregation” as it displays that there is a link between capital investment in cities and racial and ethnic segregation (Wyly 25).

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