This article addresses the effects of racial commemoration on segregation. This study discusses how whiteness permeates into every seemingly colorblind facet of life. When places are named after African-American leaders, the neighborhoods around those monuments or areas tend to be more racialized. Since individuals are typically commemorated in the areas where they lived and died, those areas tend to be minority communities already. Unfortunately, these places tend to receive derogatory names and associations with violence and poverty, making them less desirable for individuals who associate these qualities with race to move to the areas. The article uses mapping technology to study places named after African-Americans and the result of unintentional segregation. Furthermore, places and things named after African-American leaders tend to be located in already majority minority places, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of segregation in neighborhoods, regardless of colorblind policy.
These figures showcase the positive correlation between commemorating African-Americans and the percentage of African-Americans in counties. States where there is a high African-American population, tend to have more commemorations for African-Americans as well, however, the counties tend to be highly segregated, with a correlation to the commemoration policy.
Tretter, E. M. (2011). The power of naming: The toponymic geographies of commemorated African Americans. The Professional Geographer, 63(1), 34-54.
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These figures showcase the positive correlation between commemorating African-Americans and the percentage of African-Americans in counties. States where there is a high African-American population, tend to have more commemorations for African-Americans as well, however, the counties tend to be highly segregated, with a correlation to the commemoration policy.
Tretter, E. M. (2011). The power of naming: The toponymic geographies of commemorated African Americans. The Professional Geographer, 63(1), 34-54.
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