Problem 1.) Identify and describe in detail three of the policies through which Massey and Denton claim racialized ghettoes are created. residential segregation, racial inequality, and racial identity.
American Apartheid
Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
by Douglas S Massey and Nancy A Denton
Problem 2.) What is a racial caste system? (Provide the definition from the chapter as well as a paraphrased definition.) Alexander describes two such systems that have operated historically in the US. Identify and briefly describe each. Identify one example-from the Alexander reading-of the institutional discrimination that allowed those systems to operate and briefly describe how it did so.
The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander