Inner City Ghettos: The Great Migration

Opportunity has been a struggle for those living in the inner city ghettos. The Great Migration was a huge pull factor in urban america for immigrants because they had a greater chance of freedom, economic opportunity, and a possibility to seek land. Even though this migration opened many doors it also closed the window of opportunity for those of different race because there was a high increase in density in urban areas. Growing up in these inner city ghettos makes people wonder what they will do when they grow up because they are left with nothing. In Urban America, where you live and race have such an impact on one’s future, and it violates the civil rights act of 1964, which outlaws the discrimination of race , attempting to seek equal …show more content…
These two factors are both social constructs that shape one's way of life. One factor that has led to this hierarchy problem is the “The disappearance of work has adversely affected not only individuals, families, and neighborhoods, but the social life of the city at large as well… A neighborhood in which people are poor but employed is different from a neighborhood in which people are poor and jobless. Many of today’s problems in the inner-city ghetto neighborhoods—crime, family dissolution, welfare, low levels of social organization, and so on—are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work” (Wilson,xiii). The lack of jobs influences the rates of poverty, which leads to neighborhoods being concentrated by race and class. This isolates opportunity for urban black neighborhoods because federal government policies have increased this social isolation. Since society is based off this hierarchy there is uneven development of privilege that puts those of lower class at a disadvantage to live a normal …show more content…
In this day and age people are dependent on jobs because it is a basic necessity to buy basic goods to live a successful life. Increased spatial and social isolation in the 20th century placed urban black americans at a distinct disadvantage. Those most in need of employment,“By ‘the new urban poverty,’ I mean poor, segregated neighborhoods in which a substantial majority of individual adults are either unemployed or have dropped out of the labor force altogether…In ghetto census tracts of the nation's one hundred largest central cities, there were only 65.5 employed persons for every hundred adults who did not hold a job in a typical week in 1990. In contrast,the non poverty areas contained 182.3 employed persons for every hundred of those not working. In other words, the ratio of employed to jobless persons was three times greater in census tracts not marked by poverty” (Wilson,19). Wilson concludes that because of this unemployment , it leads to violence and drugs in these urban areas, which then in turn creates a stereotype that all black people are worse for this society. During this socioeconomic struggle more blue collar jobs arose, which led to a high unemployment rate and more jobs opened up in the suburbs. The problem with suburb jobs is the federal government lacks to provide the people with proper transportation to get to these jobs. The cost for a person to get to

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