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2) I chose the movie Colors because the movie shows how the difference between races is linked to their social structures, like their housing options. The movie Colors takes place in the slums of Los Angeles, where gang warfare is common among the African Americans and the Hispanic Americans, and follows two white cops, Bob Hodges and Danny McGavin, trying to stop the violence and end the gangs. The two gangs they focus on are the “Crips” and “Bloods”, which are both primarily Hispanic and African American (Internet Movie Database). The gangs fight each other for no reason, but both gangs are treated badly by the younger cop, McGavin.
3) This movie relates to Brodkin Chapter 4 “How the Jews Became White” because in the article Brodkin mentions how hard it was for African Americans to have nice housing. This happened because the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) believed in racial segregation (Brodkin 47). This made it hard for African Americans to have nice housing. Brodkin also mentioned how “Los Angeles, mainly the African American communities were divided in half or blasted to smithereens by the highways bringing Angelenos to the new white suburbs” (Brodkin 48). This shows that the African communities were split, and that there homes were made to look worse compared to the white homes. Brodkin also mentions how high mortgage rates were used on homes so that the African Americans could not afford those houses, and would have to live in the low mortgage houses that were not as nice. In the movie Colors the gangs that were fighting were living in the worse neighborhoods that were most likely the low mortgage houses. They most likely lived there because their families could not afford to live in the better neighborhoods. There family could not afford the nicer houses because of what they FHA had started in the housing market. The situation that they were in helped to promote gangs, which caused more violence. If these people lived in better communities, they might not have been involved in gangs because the nicer communities did not promote gang warfare.
4) I believe that if the gap between how communities looked and the races that lived in those communities did not exist, gangs would not exist as largely. By having a nice “white” community near a non-nice “non-white” community close to each other makes the non-nice community jealous. Gangs occur because young people do not know what else to do, so they join together to have a common enemy which can be either other gangs in different communities, which can be a different race. The gaps between living standards helped cause problems between races in the suburbs and cities. These problems led to people wanting to defend their “turf” from others because it was theirs, and they knew that it was not likely for them to find better homes to live in. These gaps between how the communities looked were a realistic view of the gaps between the different races.
2) I chose the movie Colors because the movie shows how the difference between races is linked to their social structures, like their housing options. The movie Colors takes place in the slums of Los Angeles, where gang warfare is common among the African Americans and the Hispanic Americans, and follows two white cops, Bob Hodges and Danny McGavin, trying to stop the violence and end the gangs. The two gangs they focus on are the “Crips” and “Bloods”, which are both primarily Hispanic and African American (Internet Movie Database). The gangs fight each other for no reason, but both gangs are treated badly by the younger cop, McGavin.
3) This movie relates to Brodkin Chapter 4 “How the Jews Became White” because in the article Brodkin mentions how hard it was for African Americans to have nice housing. This happened because the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) believed in racial segregation (Brodkin 47). This made it hard for African Americans to have nice housing. Brodkin also mentioned how “Los Angeles, mainly the African American communities were divided in half or blasted to smithereens by the highways bringing Angelenos to the new white suburbs” (Brodkin 48). This shows that the African communities were split, and that there homes were made to look worse compared to the white homes. Brodkin also mentions how high mortgage rates were used on homes so that the African Americans could not afford those houses, and would have to live in the low mortgage houses that were not as nice. In the movie Colors the gangs that were fighting were living in the worse neighborhoods that were most likely the low mortgage houses. They most likely lived there because their families could not afford to live in the better neighborhoods. There family could not afford the nicer houses because of what they FHA had started in the housing market. The situation that they were in helped to promote gangs, which caused more violence. If these people lived in better communities, they might not have been involved in gangs because the nicer communities did not promote gang warfare.
4) I believe that if the gap between how communities looked and the races that lived in those communities did not exist, gangs would not exist as largely. By having a nice “white” community near a non-nice “non-white” community close to each other makes the non-nice community jealous. Gangs occur because young people do not know what else to do, so they join together to have a common enemy which can be either other gangs in different communities, which can be a different race. The gaps between living standards helped cause problems between races in the suburbs and cities. These problems led to people wanting to defend their “turf” from others because it was theirs, and they knew that it was not likely for them to find better homes to live in. These gaps between how the communities looked were a realistic view of the gaps between the different races.
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