The Black middle-class Myers family moves into all-white Levittown, PA in August, 1957, and are snubbed and mistreated, in this powerful landmark documentary showcasing racism in the United States. This movie is part of the collection and courtesy of the Academic Film Archive of North America from www.archive.org; Producer: Lee Bobker/Lester Becker.
Racism, by its simplest definition, is discrimination based on the racial groups to which people belong. People with racist beliefs might hate certain groups of people according to their racial groups. In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or get preferential treatment. Racism typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, even though anybody can be racialised, independently of their somatic differences. According to the United Nations conventions, there is no distinction between the term racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination. While the term racism usually denotes race-based prejudice, violence, discrimination, or oppression, the term can also have varying and hotly contested definitions. Racialism is a related term, sometimes intended to avoid these negative meanings. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, racism is a belief or ideology that all members of each racial group possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially to distinguish it as being either superior or inferior to another racial group or racial groups. The Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines racism as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular racial group, and that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief. The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism as: “the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others.” According to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the term “racial discrimination” shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, religion,descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.’ This definition does not make any difference between prosecutions based on ethnicity and race, in part because the distinction between the two remains debatable among anthropologists. According to British law, racial group means “any group of people who are defined by reference to their race, colour, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origin”.
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Founded by East Side residents and business owners in 1979, ESNDC works to help revitalize the neighborhood through housing opportunities and assistance, business assistance, and services to families through the Eastside Family Center. This profile was created by SPNN in 2009 as part of “Community Development in Saint Paul”, a project funded by the Travelers Foundation. This one hour program profiles twelve CDC’s serving the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The new High Point Neighborhood Center, home to vital community services including Head Start, employment services, family center, environmental learning, youth programs and adult ESL. The $13 million, 20,000 square foot center will be completed in September 2009 and is aiming to be LEED Certified Gold. The building features Washington State’s largest array of solar panels. Visit the Neighborhood House website – www.nhwa.org – for more details.
Responding to a request from United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced that the $2 billion in Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funds included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act may be used for properties damaged or destroyed by natural disasters. In a letter Sen. Landrieu, Peter Kovar, HUDs Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, noted that eligible NSP activities now include the redevelopment of demolished or vacant properties for housing purposes. Prior to Sen. Landrieus request, NSP funds were not eligible for properties that were not foreclosed or declared blighted.
In partnership with Neighborhood Housing Services of Dimmit County, residents of south central Texas create businesses that build on the strengths of their community. . From a one-hour television documentary, narrated by Ray Suarez, that examines the impact of seven rural community development organizations located throughout the United States.
PART 2 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES
PART 1 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES
When I was a kid there were lots of little pickers shacks that the migrant fruit pickers stayed in that was absolutely deplorable. Often without clean running water, septic, and insulation these places were infested with mice and often probably other pests such as fleas and lice. Although many Mexicans worked in the neighborhood I grew up in, not many had the chance to have their children with them, let alone have them go to a year-round school.